Collisionless Shock Wave Generation in Counter-Streaming Plasmas Using Gekko XII
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Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan 1)Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, 2-6 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan 2)Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japan 3)Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-1 Aramaki-Aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan 4)Department of Physics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, UK 5)LULI Ecole polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex, France 6)Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China (Received 22 December 2010 / Accepted 11 March 2011)
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