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How Produce a Plasma Jet Using a Single and Low Energy Laser Beam

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Under suitable conditions on laser intensity, focal spot radius and atomic number a radiative jet was launched from a planar target. This jet was produced using a relatively low energy laser pulse, below 500 J and it presents similarities with astrophysical protostellar jets. It lasts more than 10 ns, extends over several millimeters, has velocity more than 500 km/s, the Mach number more than 10 and the density above 1018 cm−3. The mechanism of jet formation was inferred from the dimensional analysis and hydrodynamic two-dimensional simulations. It is related to the radiative cooling while the magnetic fields play a minor role.

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  1. Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications, UMR 5107 CEA – CNRS – Université Bordeaux 1, 33405, Talence cedex, France

    Ph. Nicolaï & V. T. Tikhonchuk

  2. Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, ul. Hery 23, 00-908, Warsaw 49, Poland

    A. Kasperczuk, T. Pisarczyk & S. Borodziuk

  3. Institute of Physics AS CR, Na Slovance 2, 182 21, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    K. Rohlena

  4. Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, Za Slovankou 3, 182 00, Prague 8, Czech Republic

    J. Ullschmied

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PACS numbers: 98.38.Fs, 52.50.Jm, 95.30.Qd

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Nicolaï, P., Tikhonchuk, V.T., Kasperczuk, A. et al. How Produce a Plasma Jet Using a Single and Low Energy Laser Beam. Astrophys Space Sci 307, 87–91 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-006-9222-9

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