Towards a parallel collisionless shock in LAPD
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Using a high-energy laser to produce a super-Alfvénic carbon-ion beam in a strongly magnetized helium plasma, we expect to be able to observe the formation of a collisionless parallel shock inside the Large Plasma Device. We compare early magneticfield measurements of the resonant right-hand instability with analytical predictions and find excellent agreement. Hybrid simulations show that the carbon ions couple to the background plasma and compress it, although so far the background ions are mainly accelerated perpendicular to the mean-field direction.
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