Kelvin-Helmholtz Turbulence Associated with Collisionless Shocks in Laser Produced Plasmas

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作者
Kuramitsu, Y. [1 ]
Sakawa, Y. [1 ]
Dono, S. [1 ]
Gregory, C. D. [2 ]
Pikuz, S. A. [3 ]
Loupias, B. [2 ]
Koenig, M. [2 ]
Waugh, J. N. [4 ]
Woolsey, N. [4 ]
Morita, T. [1 ]
Moritaka, T. [1 ]
Sano, T. [1 ]
Matsumoto, Y. [5 ]
Mizuta, A. [6 ]
Ohnishi, N. [7 ]
Takabe, H. [1 ]
机构
[1] Osaka Univ, Inst Laser Engn, Suita, Osaka 5650871, Japan
[2] Univ Paris 06, Ecole Polytech, Lab Utilisat Lasers Intenses, CNRS,CEA,UMR 7605, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
[3] Russian Acad Sci, Joint Inst High Temp, Moscow 125412, Russia
[4] Univ York, Dept Phys, York YO10 5DD, N Yorkshire, England
[5] Chiba Univ, Grad Sch Sci, Inage Ku, Chiba 2638522, Japan
[6] High Energy Accelerator Res Org, Inst Particle & Nucl Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[7] Thohoku Univ, Grad Sch Engn, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808579, Japan
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NUMERICAL-ANALYSIS;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.195004
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report the experimental results of a turbulent electric field driven by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability associated with laser produced collisionless shock waves. By irradiating an aluminum double plane target with a high-power laser, counterstreaming plasma flows are generated. As the consequence of the two plasma interactions, two shock waves and the contact surface are excited. The shock electric field and transverse modulation of the contact surface are observed by proton radiography. Performing hydrodynamic simulations, we reproduce the time evolutions of the reverse shocks and the transverse modulation driven by Kelvin-Helmholtz instability.
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