A. S. Bondarenko

TL;DR: The first measurements of the formation and structure of a magnetized collisionless shock by a laser-driven magnetic piston in a current-free laboratory plasma were reported in this article. But their results were limited to the case of a single piston.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dynamics of an exploding laser-produced plasma in a large ambient magneto-plasma was investigated with magnetic flux probes and Langmuir probes, and it was shown that the majority of the ambient ions are energized by the magnetic piston and swept outside the bubble volume.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Trident laser facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrated key elements in the production of laser-driven, magnetized, laboratory-scaled astrophysical collisionless shocks, including the creation of a novel magnetic piston to couple laser energy to a background plasma and the generation of a collisionless shock precursor.

TL;DR: Two-dimensional hybrid simulations of perpendicular collisionless shocks are modeled after potential laboratory conditions that are attainable in the LArge Plasma Device (LAPD) at the University of California, Los Angeles Basic Plasma Science Facility as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reproducible laboratory experiment that combines an explosive laser-produced plasma cloud with preformed, magnetized ambient plasma in a parameter regime relevant to the AMPTE barium releases is presented.