Explosion with plasma quasitrapping in a dipole field

Experiments using a powerful CO2 amplifier were performed with the aim of developing a technique for simulating a space explosion in the magnetosphere of the Earth and other planets under laboratory conditions using laser plasma clouds. The amplifier radiation with an energy of about 300 J and a pulse duration of about 10−7 sec focused on a Caprolon target of 4 mm diameter produced an exploding plasma in a dipole magnetic field with a characteristic dimension of 15 cm and a magnetic moment of 1.1·107 Gs · cm3. The paper presents preliminary results of simulating a space explosion under quasitrapping conditions, where the energy of the explosion is much lower than the geomagnetic energy and the explosion point is located in the equatorial plane at a distance of two Earth's radii.