Scientists managed to get on Earth an extreme state of matter in the form of exotic laser plasma
A successful laboratory experiment was carried out by American scientists from the Princeton Physics Laboratory, during which the so-called exotic laser plasma (HED) was obtained and measured. Now you will find out about this experiment and its results.
Another laboratory experiment and its results
Scientists know that the so-called HED plasma is almost a billion times denser than plasma obtained, for example, in tokamaks (thermonuclear reactors). And as engineers note, in HED plasma, almost everything works differently than in the case of "classic" plasma.
After all, exotic laser plasma has an ultra-high density and can actually have a solid form.
In order to obtain a new type of plasma, scientists during the experiment influenced the thinnest strips of titanium foil with an ultra-high intensity laser.
At the same time, everything that happened was carefully recorded by an X-ray installation, and then scientists, using specially developed algorithms and modern programs for processing spectral data obtained the following data.
As it turned out, HED plasma appeared for only one trillionth of a second, but even this small there was enough time to establish the key plasma parameters, about which nothing was previously known.
So, according to the analysis, it was found that the temperatures of the ions and electrons were different. The ions had a significantly lower temperature, although, according to theoretical assumptions, this should not have been.
At the moment, engineers are preparing a new cycle of experiments. Only now the process itself will be recorded on a special high-speed camera. In addition, scientists are also working on algorithms to perform a complete HED plasma simulation.
Scientists talked about the work already done on the pages of the PHYS.ORG magazine.
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