{"paper":{"title":"Experimental characterization of railgun-driven supersonic plasma jets motivated by high energy density physics applications","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.plasm-ph","authors_text":"A. Case, A. G. Lynn, A. L. Moser, C. S. Adams, E. C. Merritt, F. D. Witherspoon, J. P. Dunn, J. S. Davis, J. T. Cassibry, M. A. Gilmore, S. C. Hsu, S. J. E. Brockington, S. J. Messer, T. J. Awe","submitted_at":"2012-10-22T01:26:46Z","abstract_excerpt":"We report experimental results on the parameters, structure, and evolution of high-Mach-number (M) argon plasma jets formed and launched by a pulsed-power-driven railgun. The nominal initial average jet parameters in the data set analyzed are density \\approx 2 x 10^(16) cm^(-3), electron temperature \\approx 1.4 eV, velocity \\approx 30 km/s, M \\approx 14, ionization fraction \\approx 0.96, diameter \\approx 5 cm, and length \\approx 20 cm. These values approach the range needed by the Plasma Liner Experiment (PLX), which is designed to use merging plasma jets to form imploding spherical plasma lin"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1210.5791","kind":"arxiv","version":4},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}