1. Micron-scale phenomena observed in a turbulent laser-produced plasma.
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Rigon, G., Albertazzi, B., Pikuz, T., Mabey, P., Bouffetier, V., Ozaki, N., Vinci, T., Barbato, F., Falize, E., Inubushi, Y., Kamimura, N., Katagiri, K., Makarov, S., Manuel, M. J.-E., Miyanishi, K., Pikuz, S., Poujade, O., Sueda, K., Togashi, T., and Umeda, Y.
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PLASMA turbulence ,INERTIAL confinement fusion ,FREE electron lasers ,FLUID dynamics ,HIGH power lasers ,LASER plasmas ,PLASMA dynamics ,RAYLEIGH-Taylor instability - Abstract
Turbulence is ubiquitous in the universe and in fluid dynamics. It influences a wide range of high energy density systems, from inertial confinement fusion to astrophysical-object evolution. Understanding this phenomenon is crucial, however, due to limitations in experimental and numerical methods in plasma systems, a complete description of the turbulent spectrum is still lacking. Here, we present the measurement of a turbulent spectrum down to micron scale in a laser-plasma experiment. We use an experimental platform, which couples a high power optical laser, an x-ray free-electron laser and a lithium fluoride crystal, to study the dynamics of a plasma flow with micrometric resolution (~1μm) over a large field of view (>1 mm
2 ). After the evolution of a Rayleigh–Taylor unstable system, we obtain spectra, which are overall consistent with existing turbulent theory, but present unexpected features. This work paves the way towards a better understanding of numerous systems, as it allows the direct comparison of experimental results, theory and numerical simulations. Turbulence effects explored use macroscale systems in general. Here the authors generate a turbulent plasma using laser irradiation of a solid target and study the dynamics of the plasma flow at the micron-scale by using scattering of an XFEL beam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2021
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