@article{ab839a619ed3418f9ba24463fc9331b5,
title = "Numerical simulation of magnetized jet creation using a hollow ring of laser beams",
abstract = "Three dimensional FLASH magneto-hydrodynamic modeling is carried out to interpret the OMEGA laser experiments of strongly magnetized, highly collimated jets driven by a ring of 20 OMEGA beams. The predicted optical Thomson scattering spectra and proton images are in good agreement with a subset of the experimental data. Magnetic fields generated via the Biermann battery term are amplified at the boundary between the core and the surrounding of the jet. The simulation predicts multiple axially aligned magnetic flux ropes with an alternating poloidal component. Future applications of the hollow ring configuration in laboratory astrophysics are discussed.",
author = "Y. Lu and P. Tzeferacos and E. Liang and Follett, {R. K.} and L. Gao and A. Birkel and Froula, {D. H.} and W. Fu and H. Ji and D. Lamb and Li, {C. K.} and H. Sio and R. Petrasso and Wei, {M. S.}",
note = "Funding Information: This research was supported by DOE Grant DE-NA0002721. The research and materials incorporated in this work were partially developed at the National Laser Users{\textquoteright} Facility at the University of Rochester{\textquoteright}s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), with the financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Cooperative Agreement DE-NA0001944. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE39) which was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant No. ACI-1548562. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Additional simulations were performed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and with Los Alamos National Laboratory institutional computing. Y.L. and E.L. acknowledge partial support by LANL-LDRD during the writing of this paper. We also acknowledge the valuable discussions with Hui Li. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Author(s).",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1063/1.5050924",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "26",
journal = "Physics of Plasmas",
issn = "1070-664X",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "2",
}