Total x-ray power improvement on recent wire array experiments on the Z machine.
Conference
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OSTI ID:1031317
Recent experiments on the refurbished Z-machine were conducted using large diameter stainless steel arrays which produced x-ray powers of 260 TW. Follow-up experiments were then conducted utilizing tungsten wires with approximately the same total mass with the hypothesis that the total x-ray power would increase. On the large diameter tungsten experiments, the x-ray power averaged over 300 TW and the total x-ray energy was greater than 2MJ. Different analysis techniques for inferring the x-ray power will be described in detail.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 1031317
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2010-7989C; TRN: US201201%%516
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Proposed for presentation at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics held November 7-12, 2010 in Chicago, IL.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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