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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 21, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4872323
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- U.S. Department of Energy
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We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of two supersonic laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched by pulsed-power-driven railguns using injected argon, and have electron density similar to 10(14) cm(-3), electron temperature approximate to 1.4 eV, ionization fraction near unity, and velocity approximate to 40 km/s just prior to merging. The jet merging produces a few-cm-thick stagnation layer, as observed in both fast-framing camera images and multi-chord interferometer data, consistent with collisional shock formation [E. C. Merritt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 085003 (2013)]. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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