Insensitivity of a turbulent laser-plasma dynamo to initial conditions

Bott, A. F. A.; Chen, L.; Tzeferacos, P.; Palmer, C. A. J.; Bell, A. R.; Bingham, R.; Birkel, A.; Froula, D. H.; Katz, J.; Kunz, M. W.; Li, C. -K.; Park, H-S; Petrasso, R.; Ross, J. S.; Reville, B.; Ryu, D.; Séguin, F. H.; White, T. G.; Schekochihin, A. A.; Lamb, D. Q.; Gregori, G.

doi:10.1063/5.0084345

Title: Insensitivity of a turbulent laser-plasma dynamo to initial conditions

Journal Article · Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Matter and Radiation at Extremes

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0084345· OSTI ID:1875467

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Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Princeton, NJ (United States)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Queens Univ., Belfast (United Kingdom)
Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom); Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
Univ. of Princeton, NJ (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Max-Planck-Inst. für Kernphysik, Heidelberg (Germany)
UNIST, Ulsan (South Korea)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

It has recently been demonstrated experimentally that a turbulent plasma created by the collision of two inhomogeneous, asymmetric, weakly magnetized, laser-produced plasma jets can generate strong stochastic magnetic fields via the small-scale turbulent dynamo mechanism, provided the magnetic Reynolds number of the plasma is sufficiently large. In this paper, we compare such a plasma with one arising from two pre-magnetized plasma jets whose creation is identical save for the addition of a strong external magnetic field imposed by a pulsed magnetic field generator. We investigate the differences between the two turbulent systems using a Thomson-scattering diagnostic, x-ray self-emission imaging, and proton radiography. The Thomson-scattering spectra and x-ray images suggest that the external magnetic field has a limited effect on the plasma dynamics in the experiment. Although the external magnetic field induces collimation of the flows in the colliding plasma jets and although the initial strengths of the magnetic fields arising from the interaction between the colliding jets are significantly larger as a result of the external field, the energies and morphologies of the stochastic magnetic fields post-amplification are indistinguishable. We conclude that, for turbulent laser-plasmas with supercritical magnetic Reynolds numbers, the dynamo-amplified magnetic fields are determined by the turbulent dynamics rather than the seed fields or modest changes in the initial flow dynamics of the plasma, a finding consistent with theoretical expectations and simulations of turbulent dynamos.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics; Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); National Science Foundation (NSF); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003856; B591485; B632670; NA0002724; NA0003605; NA0003934; SC0016566; NA0003868; PHY-1619573; PHY-2033925; PHY-2045718; AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1875467

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1873918; OSTI ID: 1890808

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-840200; 256973; 247039; PHY-1619573; PHY-2033925; PHY-2045718; 2016R1A5A1013277; 2020R1A2C2102800; EP/M022331/1; EP/N014472/1; EP/R034737/1; TRN: US2307212

Journal Information:: Matter and Radiation at Extremes, Vol. 7, Issue 4; ISSN 2468-2047

Publisher:: China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP)/AIP PublishingCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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