Improved Symmetry Greatly Increases X-Ray Power from Wire-Array-Pinches
- 16 December 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (25), 5063-5066
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.5063
Abstract
A systematic experimental study of annular aluminum-wire Z-pinches on a 20-TW electrical generator shows that the measured spatial characteristics and emitted x-ray power agree more closely with rad-hydro simulations when large numbers of wires are used. The measured x-ray power increases first slowly and then rapidly with decreasing interwire gap spacing. Simulations suggested that this increase reflects the transition from implosion of individual wire plasmas to one of an azimuthally symmetric plasma shell. In the plasma-shell regime, x-ray powers of 40 TW are achieved.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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