Magnetized shock-driven implosion platform at OMEGA for studies of strong electron and ion magnetization

This talk reports on a new experimental platform, that uses 50T externally imposed B-fields, producing unique plasma conditions, with both strongly magnetized electrons (e) and ions (i). The first set of experiments produced e and i Hall parameters of \textasciitilde 40 and \textasciitilde 5 respectively, based on the experimentally measured temperatures, convergence, and fuel composition, and \textasciitilde 7MG B-field. The field is flux compressed in these implosions because the B-field diffusion time (\textasciitilde 10$^{\mathrm{-6}}$s) is much longer than the implosion time (\textasciitilde ns). We observe, for the first time, that these high B-fields increased the (P2) anisotropy in implosions. Suppression of thermal transport by the strongly magnetized electrons is the primary mechanism for this effect. This platform opens-up opportunities for studies of (i)-Knudsen number reduction and (e)-thermal transport suppression in strongly magnetized HED plasmas.