Developed turbulence and nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

Meinecke, Jena; Tzeferacos, Petros; Bell, Anthony; Bingham, Robert; Clarke, Robert; Churazov, Eugene; Crowston, Robert; Doyle, Hugo; Drake, R. Paul; Heathcote, Robert; Koenig, Michel; Kuramitsu, Yasuhiro; Kuranz, Carolyn; Lee, Dongwook; MacDonald, Michael; Murphy, Christopher; Notley, Margaret; Park, Hye-Sook; Pelka, Alexander; Ravasio, Alessandra; Reville, Brian; Sakawa, Youichi; Wan, Willow; Woolsey, Nigel; Yurchak, Roman; Miniati, Francesco; Schekochihin, Alexander; Lamb, Don; Gregori, Gianluca

doi:10.1073/pnas.1502079112

Title: Developed turbulence and nonlinear amplification of magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas

Journal Article · Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1502079112· OSTI ID:1414370

Meinecke, Jena ^[1]; Tzeferacos, Petros ^[2]; Bell, Anthony ^[1]; Bingham, Robert ^[3]; Clarke, Robert ^[4]; Churazov, Eugene ^[5]; Crowston, Robert ^[6]; Doyle, Hugo ^[1];

^[7]; Heathcote, Robert ^[4]; Koenig, Michel ^[8]; Kuramitsu, Yasuhiro ^[9]; Kuranz, Carolyn ^[7]; Lee, Dongwook ^[10]; MacDonald, Michael ^[7]; Murphy, Christopher ^[6]; Notley, Margaret ^[4]; Park, Hye-Sook ^[11]; Pelka, Alexander ^[12]; Ravasio, Alessandra ^[8] more »

Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL); Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Oxford (United Kingdom). Rutherford Appleton Lab. (RAL)
Max Planck Society, Garching (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for Astrophysics; Space Research Inst., Moscow (Russia)
Univ. of York (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
Univ. Paris Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France)
Osaka Univ. (Japan); National Central Univ., Taoyuan (Taiwan)
Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Univ. Paris Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France); Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, (Germany)
Queen's Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
Osaka Univ. (Japan)
ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)

The visible matter in the universe is turbulent and magnetized. Turbulence in galaxy clusters is produced by mergers and by jets of the central galaxies and believed responsible for the amplification of magnetic fields. We report on experiments looking at the collision of two laser-produced plasma clouds, mimicking, in the laboratory, a cluster merger event. By measuring the spectrum of the density fluctuations, we infer developed, Kolmogorov-like turbulence. From spectral line broadening, we estimate a level of turbulence consistent with turbulent heating balancing radiative cooling, as it likely does in galaxy clusters. We show that the magnetic field is amplified by turbulent motions, reaching a nonlinear regime that is a precursor to turbulent dynamo. Thus, our experiment provides a promising platform for understanding the structure of turbulence and the amplification of magnetic fields in the universe.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1414370

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-742436

Journal Information:: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 112, Issue 27; ISSN 0027-8424

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Country of Publication:: United States

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