Formation of collisionless shocks in magnetized plasma interaction with kinetic-scale obstacles

Cruz, F.; Alves, E. P.; Bamford, R. A.; Bingham, R.; Fonseca, R. A.; Silva, L. O.

doi:10.1063/1.4975310

Title: Formation of collisionless shocks in magnetized plasma interaction with kinetic-scale obstacles

Journal Article · Mon Feb 06 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975310· OSTI ID:1353106

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Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal). Inst. Superior Tecnico, Inst. of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, Group for Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP)
Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal). Inst. Superior Tecnico, Inst. of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, Group for Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL); Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal). Inst. Superior Tecnico, Inst. of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion, Group for Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP); Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal). Inst. Univ. de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Dept. of Information Science and Technology (DCTI)

We investigate the formation of collisionless magnetized shocks triggered by the interaction between magnetized plasma flows and miniature-sized (order of plasma kinetic-scales) magnetic obstacles resorting to massively parallel, full particle-in-cell simulations, including the electron kinetics. The critical obstacle size to generate a compressed plasma region ahead of these objects is determined by independently varying the magnitude of the dipolar magnetic moment and the plasma magnetization. Here we find that the effective size of the obstacle depends on the relative orientation between the dipolar and plasma internal magnetic fields, and we show that this may be critical to form a shock in small-scale structures. We also study the microphysics of the magnetopause in different magnetic field configurations in 2D and compare the results with full 3D simulations. Finally, we evaluate the parameter range where such miniature magnetized shocks can be explored in laboratory experiments.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: ERC-2015-AdG 695088; AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1353106

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 24, Issue 2; ISSN 1070-664X

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