Interaction of radiatively cooled plasma jets with collimated, supersonic gas flows

Summary form only given. A supersonic (Mach∼3–5), radiatively cooled plasma jet is produced by the ablation of plasma from a radial foil 1 , a metallic disk subjected to a ∼1.4 MA, 250 ns current pulse from the MAGPIE generator. The ablated plasma converges on axis, producing a steady and collimated jet with a typical axial velocity of ∼100 km/s.