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A. Rososhek

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arXiv2026

The Hall Term and Anomalous Resistivity Effects in Neon Gas-Puff Z-Pinches

In this paper, we compare experimental and numerical simulation results to benchmark the PERSEUS code against gas-puff $Z$-pinch implosions on COBRA. We then use the code to investigate the structure of the plasma sheath. To this end, we study the morphology of the implosion, focusing on non-magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) effects such as electron drifts governed by the Hall term within the growing magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability (MRTI). The spatial wavelength of MRTI is better reproduced when both the Hall term and an anomalous resistivity driven by the electron drift are included. Additionally, cathode-anode gap polarity effects are more accurately captured when the Hall term is turned on. The plasma sheath structure, which includes both the accelerating piston driven by the magnetic pressure and the shockwave ahead of it, matches interferometric measurements in width only when a current-driven anomalous resistivity model is used. This anomalous resistivity is assumed to be driven by the lower-hybrid-drift instability, which generates small-scale turbulence with typical wavelengths < 30μm.

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arXiv2025

Wavenumber Calibration for an Imaging Refractometer

An imaging refractrometer can be used to describe the properties of a high-energy density plasma by analyzing the transverse intensity distribution of a laser beam that has passed through the plasma. The output of the refractrometer can be directly calibrated in terms of beam deflection angles using ray transfer matrix analysis. This paper describes a novel way to calibrate the refractrometer output in terms of the spatial wavenumbers of the transverse intensity distribution of the laser beam. This is accomplished by replacing the plasma with a gridded structure that modulates the transverse intensity of the beam, producing an intensity distribution with a known Fourier Transform. This calibration technique will generate a one-to-one mapping of deflection angle to wavenumber and will enable measurement of the size of Fourier space available to the system. The spectrum of wavenumbers generated when the laser beam passes through a high-energy density plasma may contain information about the types of density fluctuation that are present in the plasma.

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arXiv2024

Randomization of a Laser Wavefront by the Turbulent Gas-Puff Z-Pinch Plasma Column

In this paper, we present the first direct experimental evidence supported by numerical modeling of a turbulent plasma column formed during a gas-puff z-pinch implosion generated by COBRA current. Utilizing an imaging refractometer, we show a significant decrease in spatial autocorrelation of the laser field and the appearance of a laser speckle pattern shortly before stagnation. The intensity distribution of the speckles measured during different shot campaigns while employing long and short COBRA pulses follows the speckle statistics satisfactorily. The imaging refractometer signal is proportional to the integral over electron density gradients; hence, the measured phase randomization of the individual plane waves comprising the laser field implies random density distribution. To validate this, the Beam Propagation Method code simulates the laser beam propagation through different artificial density distributions with various average fluctuation scales and generates synthetic imaging refractometer data. The results reproduce similar trends in the experimental data, such as the increasing vertical width for the decreasing average spatial scale of the fluctuations and decreasing spatial correlation length of the laser field. Therefore, during the gas-puff z-pinch implosion process, it is likely that the plasma flow is almost always turbulent with the average spatial scale of the turbulent density fluctuations decreasing towards stagnation.

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