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We report spatially resolved measurements of the oblique merging of twosupersonic laboratory plasma jets. The jets are formed and launched bypulsed-power-driven railguns using injected argon, and have electron density$\sim 10^{14}$ cm$^{-3}$, electron temperature $\approx 1.4$ eV, ionizationfraction near unity, and velocity $\approx 40$ km/s just prior to merging. Thejet merging produces a few-cm-thick stagnation layer, as observed in bothfast-framing camera images and multi-chord interferometer data, consistent withcollisional shock formation [E. C. Merritt et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 111},085003 (2013)].

Experimental evidence for collisional shock formation via two obliquely merging supersonic plasma jets