We present laboratory results on energy partitioning from supercritical, magnetized collisionless shock experiments (, ). We report the first observation of fully-developed laboratory shocks that evolve for more than seven upstream ion gyration periods and have a downstream region that extends more than four shocked ion gyroperiods. Thomson scattering measurements are used to measure electron and ion temperatures, plasma density, and flow speeds. We directly measure a compression ratio of , consistent with shock jump conditions. A foot ahead of the shock exhibits super-adiabatic electron and ion heating. The downstream electron temperature has an excess above adiabatic and collisional electron-ion heating, implying significant collisionless anomalous electron heating. We find a downstream electron-ion temperature ratio , consistent with spacecraft observations but outside the range of predictions from theory and numerical simulations.

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