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[en] PBFA Z is a new 60 TW/5 MJ electrical driver located at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL). It has been used to drive Z-pinches. The pulsed power design of PBFA Z is based on conventional single-pulse Marx generator with water-line pulse-forming technology used on the earlier Saturn and PBFA II accelerators. PBFA Z stores 11.4 MJ in its 36 Marx generators, couples 5 MJ in a 60 TW/105 ns pulse to the output water transmission lines, and delivers 3.0 MJ and 50 TW of electrical energy to the Z-pinch load. Depending on the initial load inductance and the implosion time, PBFA Z has attained peak currents of 16-20 MA with a rise time of 105 ns. Current is fed to the Z-pinch load through self-magnetically insulated transmission lines (MITLs). Peak electrical fields in the MITLs exceed 2 MV/cm. The current from the four independent conical-disk MITLs is combined together in a double post-hole vacuum convolute with an efficiency greater than 95%. SNL has achieved X-ray powers of 200TW and X-ray energies of 1.9 MJ from tungsten wire-array Z-pinch loads
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China Nuclear Science and Technology Report; v. 1(3); 2002; 13 p; CAEP--0112; ISSN 1671-7430;
; Data (CD) in PDF format: Acrobat Reader for Windows 9x; This article is located on p. 76-88; 13 figs., 6 refs.

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ACCELERATORS, CYCLIC ACCELERATORS, ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, ELEMENTS, EQUIPMENT, FUNCTION GENERATORS, HIGH-VOLTAGE PULSE GENERATORS, LINEAR PINCH DEVICES, METALS, OPEN PLASMA DEVICES, PINCH DEVICES, POWER SUPPLIES, PULSE GENERATORS, REFRACTORY METALS, SYNCHROTRONS, THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES, TRANSITION ELEMENTS
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