Collisionless shocks, that is shocks mediated by electromagnetic processes, are customary
in space physics and in astrophysics. They are to be found in a great variety of objects and …

Laboratory facilities employing high pulsed currents and voltages, and called generally
“pulsed-power facilities,” allow experimenters to produce a variety of hydrodynamical …

Collisionless shocks can be produced as a result of strong magnetic fields in a plasma flow,
and therefore are common in many astrophysical systems. The Weibel instability is one …

Astrophysical collisionless shocks are among the most powerful particle accelerators in the
Universe. Generated by violent interactions of supersonic plasma flows with the interstellar …

Filamentation due to the growth of a Weibel-type instability was observed in the interaction
of a pair of counterstreaming, ablatively driven plasma flows, in a supersonic, collisionless …

Self-organization, occurs in plasmas when energy progressively transfers from smaller to
larger scales in an inverse cascade. Global structures that emerge from turbulent plasmas …

Collisionless shock waves in supernova remnants and the solar wind heat electrons less
effectively than they heat ions, as is predicted by kinetic simulations. However, the values of …

Proton imaging is commonly used to reveal the electric and magnetic fields that are found in
high energy density plasmas. Presented here is an analysis of this technique that is directed …

A study of the transition from collisional to collisionless plasma flows has been carried out at
the National Ignition Facility using high Mach number (M> 4) counterstreaming plasmas. In …

How electrons get accelerated to relativistic energies in a high-Mach-number
quasiperpendicular shock is presented by means of ab initio particle-in-cell simulations in …