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Dynamics of a Plasma Cloud Generated by a Compact Coaxial Gun upon Expansion into Vacuum and Large-Volume Background Plasma in an External Magnetic Field

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Results of experiments on injection of dense plasma clouds created by a small-scale coaxial generator into vacuum and large-volume background plasma in an ambient magnetic field are presented. The regime of an “infinite” background medium that allows studying the plasma-cloud dynamics on the scale of about one meter in the directions perpendicular and parallel to a quasi-uniform magnetic field is realized on “Krot” plasma device. The dynamics of the diamagnetic cavity appearing upon magnetic-field expulsion by a plasma blob, the electromagnetic noise appearing in the cavity, along with the evolution of plasma-cloud structure during injection and at the stage of its decay, were studied. It is demonstrated that the key properties of the cloud dynamics that are typical of the active space and high-energy laboratory experiments, including complete expulsion of the magnetic field from the cloud and development of the flute instability at its boundary, are reproduced at low injection speed (below 30 km/s) and low plasma energy (on the order of 0.1 J).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to V.I. Gundorin for development and fabrication of the high-voltage equipment.

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The experiments were carried out using unique scientific facility “Complex of Large-Scale Geophysical Systems of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.” This research was supported within the framework of the 10th project of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics (NCPM) “Experimental Laboratory Astrophysics and Geophysics” and the State Assignment no. 0030-2021-0028 “Laboratory and Numerical Modeling of Nonstationary Plasma Processes in the Atmosphere and Space.”

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Nikolenko, A.S., Gushchin, M.E., Korobkov, S.V. et al. Dynamics of a Plasma Cloud Generated by a Compact Coaxial Gun upon Expansion into Vacuum and Large-Volume Background Plasma in an External Magnetic Field. Plasma Phys. Rep. 49, 1284–1299 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X23601141

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