Transition from Collisional to Collisionless Regimes in Interpenetrating Plasma Flows on the National Ignition Facility

Author(s): J. S. Ross et al.

A transition from a Coulomb-collision-dominated regime to a collisionless-collective-scattering regime is observed at the NIF in plasmas with high Mach numbers.

[Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 185003] Published Fri May 05, 2017