Saturation of the compression of two interacting magnetized plasma toroids evidenced in the laboratory.

ABSTRACT: Interactions between magnetic fields advected by matter play a fundamental role in the Universe at a diverse range of scales. A crucial role these interactions play is in making turbulent fields highly anisotropic, leading to observed ordered fields. These in turn, are important evolutionary factors for all the systems within and around. Despite scant evidence, due to the difficulty in measuring even near-Earth events, the magnetic field compression factor in these interactions, measured at very varied scales, is limited to a few. However, compressing matter in which a magnetic field is embedded, results in compression up to several thousands. Here we show, using laboratory experiments and matching three-dimensional hybrid simulations, that there is indeed a very effective saturation of th

SUBMITTER: Sladkov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11579004 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature