Laboratory measurements of resistivity in warm dense plasmas relevant to the microphysics of brown dwarfs

Booth, N.; Robinson, A. P. L.; Hakel, P.; Clarke, R. J.; Dance, R. J.; Doria, D.; Gizzi, L. A.; Gregori, G.; Koester, P.; Labate, L.; Levato, T.; Li, B.; Makita, M.; Mancini, R. C.; Pasley, J.; Rajeev, P. P.; Riley, D.; Wagenaars, E.; Waugh, J. N.; Woolsey, N. C.

doi:10.1038/ncomms9742

Title: Laboratory measurements of resistivity in warm dense plasmas relevant to the microphysics of brown dwarfs

Journal Article · Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9742· OSTI ID:1304822

Booth, N. ^[1]; Robinson, A. P. L. ^[1]; Hakel, P. ^[2]; Clarke, R. J. ^[1]; Dance, R. J. ^[3]; Doria, D. ^[4]; Gizzi, L. A. ^[5]; Gregori, G. ^[6]; Koester, P. ^[5]; Labate, L. ^[5]; Levato, T. ^[7]; Li, B. ^[1]; Makita, M. ^[4]; Mancini, R. C. ^[8]; Pasley, J. ^[9]; Rajeev, P. P. ^[1]; Riley, D. ^[4];

^[3]; Waugh, J. N. ^[3]; Woolsey, N. C. ^[3]

STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); ELI Beamlines, Prague (Czech Republic); Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
Univ. of York, Heslington York (United Kingdom)
Queen's Univ. Belfast, Belfast (United Kingdom)
Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa (Italy)
Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); ELI Beamlines, Prague (Czech Republic); Instituto Nazionale di Ottica, Pisa (Italy)
Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV (United States)
STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot (United Kingdom); Univ. of York, Heslington York (United Kingdom)

Since the observation of the first brown dwarf in 1995, numerous studies have led to a better understanding of the structures of these objects. Here we present a method for studying material resistivity in warm dense plasmas in the laboratory, which we relate to the microphysics of brown dwarfs through viscosity and electron collisions. Here we use X-ray polarimetry to determine the resistivity of a sulphur-doped plastic target heated to Brown Dwarf conditions by an ultra-intense laser. The resistivity is determined by matching the plasma physics model to the atomic physics calculations of the measured large, positive, polarization. Furthermore, the inferred resistivity is larger than predicted using standard resistivity models, suggesting that these commonly used models will not adequately describe the resistivity of warm dense plasma related to the viscosity of brown dwarfs.

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Research Organization:: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) (United Kingdom); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396

OSTI ID:: 1304822

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-14-21902

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 6; ISSN 2041-1723

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