Efficient x-ray production from ultrafast gas-puff Z pinches
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 57 (3) , 830-833
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.334734
Abstract
The Proto-II accelerator has been used to implode krypton and xenon annular gas puffs. A significant fraction of the machine electrical energy was converted first to plasma kinetic energy and then to x rays when the plasma pinched on axis. Quantitative measurements using time-resolved bolometers have shown as much as 10% of the total radiation yield near 1 keV in Xe and 2 keV in Kr. We have compared this radiation yield to the predictions from one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic code calculations. The implosions were also observed with both time-integrated pinhole cameras and spectrographs. No hard x-ray (E>10 keV) output was observed.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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