Laser-Produced Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Plasma Slabs in a 20 T Magnetic Field

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Abstract
Magnetized laser-produced plasmas are central to many novel laboratory astrophysics and inertial confinement fusion studies, as well as in industrial applications. Here we provide the first complete description of the three-dimensional dynamics of a laser-driven plasma plume expanding in a 20 T transverse magnetic field. The plasma is collimated by the magnetic field into a slender, rapidly elongating slab, whose plasma-vacuum interface is unstable to the growth of the “classical,” fluidlike magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability.
Funding Information
  • H2020 European Research Council (787539)
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (11-IDEX-0004-02, ANR-10-EQPX-29-01)
  • Russian Foundation for Basic Research (18-29-21018, 18-02-00850)
  • Russian Science Foundation (17-72-20272)
  • Institut National de la propriété industrielle (1000183285)

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