Laboratory Observation of Laser-Driven, Supercritical Collisionless Shocks

Derek Schaeffer1, William Fox2, Dan Haberberger3, Gennady Fiksel4, Amitava Bhattacharjee5,6, D Barnak3,7, Suxing Hu8 and Kai Germaschewski9, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Physics & Astronomy, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, (7)University of Rochester, Fusion Science Center for Extreme States of Matter, Rochester, United States, (8)University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Rochester, United States, (9)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States