An experimental platform for pulsed-power driven magnetic reconnection

Hare, J. D.; Suttle, L. G.; Lebedev, S. V.; Loureiro, N. F.; Ciardi, A.; Chittenden, J. P.; Clayson, T.; Eardley, S. J.; Garcia, C.; Halliday, J. W.  D.; Robinson, T.; Smith, R. A.; Stuart, N.; Suzuki-Vidal, F.; Tubman, E. R.

doi:10.1063/1.5016280

Title: An experimental platform for pulsed-power driven magnetic reconnection

Journal Article · Fri Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Physics of Plasmas

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5016280· OSTI ID:1499647

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Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)

We describe a versatile pulsed-power driven platform for magnetic reconnection experiments, based on the exploding wire arrays driven in parallel [Suttle et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.116, 225001 (2016)]. This platform produces inherently magnetised plasma flows for the duration of the generator current pulse (250 ns), resulting in a long-lasting reconnection layer. The layer exists for long enough to allow the evolution of complex processes such as plasmoid formation and movement to be diagnosed by a suite of high spatial and temporal resolution laser-based diagnostics. Becasue of this, we can access a wide range of magnetic reconnection regimes by changing the wire material or moving the electrodes inside the wire arrays. We present results with aluminium and carbon wires, in which the parameters of the inflows and the layer that forms are significantly different. By moving the electrodes inside the wire arrays, we change how strongly the inflows are driven. This enables us to study both symmetric reconnection in a range of different regimes and asymmetric reconnection.

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Research Organization:: Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0003764; EP/ N013379/1; FG03-02NA00057; SC0001063; ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02; SC0016215; F03-02NA00057; SC-0001063

OSTI ID:: 1499647

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1425251

Journal Information:: Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 25, Issue 5; ISSN 1070-664X

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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