Proton imaging of high-energy-density laboratory plasmas

DB Schaeffer, AFA Bott, M Borghesi, KA Flippo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Proton imaging has become a key diagnostic for measuring electromagnetic fields in high-
energy-density (HED) laboratory plasmas. Compared to other techniques for diagnosing …

Quasiperiodic erupters: a stellar mass-transfer model for the radiation

JH Krolik, I Linial - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quasiperiodic erupters are a remarkable class of objects exhibiting very-large-amplitude
quasiperiodic X-ray flares. Although numerous dynamical models have been proposed to …

MHD turbulence: a biased review

AA Schekochihin - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2022 - cambridge.org
This review of scaling theories of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence aims to put the
developments of the last few years in the context of the canonical time line (from Kolmogorov …

Persistent mysteries of jet engines, formation, propagation, and particle acceleration: Have they been addressed experimentally?

EG Blackman, SV Lebedev - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The physics of astrophysical jets can be divided into three regimes:(i) engine and launch (ii)
propagation and collimation,(iii) dissipation and particle acceleration. Since astrophysical …

Saturation mechanism of the fluctuation dynamo in supersonic turbulent plasmas

A Seta, C Federrath - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Magnetic fields in several astrophysical objects are amplified and maintained by a dynamo
mechanism, which is the conversion of the turbulent kinetic energy to magnetic energy. A …

Tearing instability and current-sheet disruption in the turbulent dynamo

AK Galishnikova, MW Kunz, AA Schekochihin - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Turbulence in a conducting plasma can amplify seed magnetic fields in what is known as the
turbulent, or small-scale, dynamo. The associated growth rate and emergent magnetic-field …

Retrieving transient magnetic fields of ultrarelativistic laser plasma via ejected electron polarization

Z Gong, KZ Hatsagortsyan, CH Keitel - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Interaction of an ultrastrong short laser pulse with nonprepolarized near-critical density
plasma is investigated in an ultrarelativistic regime, with an emphasis on the radiative spin …

Fundamental scales in the kinematic phase of the turbulent dynamo

N Kriel, JR Beattie, A Seta… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The turbulent dynamo is a powerful mechanism that converts turbulent kinetic energy to
magnetic energy. A key question regarding the magnetic field amplification by turbulence, is …

Strong suppression of heat conduction in a laboratory replica of galaxy-cluster turbulent plasmas

J Meinecke, P Tzeferacos, JS Ross, AFA Bott… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
In conventional gases and plasmas, it is known that heat fluxes are proportional to
temperature gradients, with collisions between particles mediating energy flow from hotter to …

Laboratory evidence of Weibel magnetogenesis driven by temperature gradient using three-dimensional synchronous proton radiography

Z Zhao, S He, H An, Z Lei, Y Xie, W Yuan, J Jiao… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The origin of the cosmic magnetic field remains an unsolved mystery, relying not only on
specific dynamo processes but also on the seed field to be amplified. Recently, the diffuse …