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Substantial progress has been made in developing plasma radiation sources from Z-pinch implosions. University pulsed power machines provide a cost effective platform to study alternative mechanisms of producing x-rays in exploratory experiments that may provide guidance in search of further improvements on the larger machines. Radiation from puff-on-wire implosions were studied by Chuvatin et al....
It is shown that the time during which a MITL preserves its transmission properties at high linear current densities (5–7 MA/cm) corresponds to the requirements of the conceptual fusion reactor.
Summary form only given. In this experiment we examine the temporal evolution of the current distribution among individual wires and pairs of wires in wire array z-pinches using different wire materials (e.g., aluminum and tungsten). To accomplish this we electrically isolate the wires, or pairs of wires, from each other using segmented load hardware. Each segment is able to hold one or two wires...
This article describes several applications and methods using the X pinch as a source of X-ray radiation for the radiography of dense plasma objects. These methods, in general, do not use pinholes, and instead take the advantage of the small size (<1 mm, and in some cases <3 mm) and a short X-ray emission duration (<1 ns) of the radiation source produced by an X pinch. Two of these methods,...
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