TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental study of an argon-hydrogen Z pinch plasma radiation source
AU - Shishlov, Alexander V.
AU - Baksht, Rina B.
AU - Labetsky, Aleksey Yu
AU - Oreshkin, Vladimir I.
AU - Rousskikh, Alexander G.
AU - Fedunin, Anatoly V.
AU - Chaikovsky, Stanislav A.
AU - Kokshenev, Vladimir A.
AU - Kurmaev, Nikolay E.
AU - Fursov, Fedor I.
PY - 2002/4/1
Y1 - 2002/4/1
N2 - Experiments with Ar-H 2 double gas puffs have been conducted on the GIT-12 generator at the current level of 2.1-2.4 MA and 250-350 ns implosion times. The argon-hydrogen mixture was used as a working medium in the outer shell of a double gas puff. The goal of the experiments was to verify whether the use of the argon-hydrogen mixture in the outer shell can improve the stability of a double gas puff implosion and provide increased argon K -shell radiation yields. The experiments showed that hydrogen admixture results in the change of implosion dynamics: decreased implosion velocities and compression ratios. The experimental data does not allow a conclusion that the use of an Ar-H 2 mixture in the outer shell of a double gas puff significantly improves the implosion stability. An increase in the hydrogen percentage in the outer shell leads to a decrease in plasma density and temperature, and as a result, reduced K -shell radiation yields and powers.
AB - Experiments with Ar-H 2 double gas puffs have been conducted on the GIT-12 generator at the current level of 2.1-2.4 MA and 250-350 ns implosion times. The argon-hydrogen mixture was used as a working medium in the outer shell of a double gas puff. The goal of the experiments was to verify whether the use of the argon-hydrogen mixture in the outer shell can improve the stability of a double gas puff implosion and provide increased argon K -shell radiation yields. The experiments showed that hydrogen admixture results in the change of implosion dynamics: decreased implosion velocities and compression ratios. The experimental data does not allow a conclusion that the use of an Ar-H 2 mixture in the outer shell of a double gas puff significantly improves the implosion stability. An increase in the hydrogen percentage in the outer shell leads to a decrease in plasma density and temperature, and as a result, reduced K -shell radiation yields and powers.
KW - Plasma radiation source
KW - X-ray production
KW - Z pinch
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U2 - 10.1109/TPS.2002.1024282
DO - 10.1109/TPS.2002.1024282
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036549932
VL - 30
SP - 498
EP - 511
JO - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
SN - 0093-3813
IS - 2 II
ER -