Published November 1997
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Wire number doubling in plasma-shell regime increases z-accelerator x-ray power
Description
Doubling the number of tungsten wires from 120 to 240, keeping the mass fixed, increased the radiated x-ray power relative to the electrical power at the insulator stack of the z accelerator by (40±20)% for 8.75- and 20-mm-radii z-pinch wire arrays. Radiation-magneto-hydrodynamic calculations suggest that the arrays were operating in the 'plasma shell' regime, where the plasmas generated by the individual wires merge prior to the inward implosion of the entire array
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 18 p.
- Report number
- SAND--97-2688
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 29036459
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- IMPLOSIONS; LINEAR Z PINCH DEVICES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; PLASMA; WIRES; X-RAY DETECTION
- Descriptors DEC
- DETECTION; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LINEAR PINCH DEVICES; MECHANICS; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; PINCH DEVICES; RADIATION DETECTION; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
Optional Information
- Contract/Grant/Project number
- Contract AC04-94AL85000
- Funding organization
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States).