Radial magnetic compression in the expelled jet of a plasma deflagration accelerator

Loebner, Keith T. K.; Underwood, Thomas C.; Mouratidis, Theodore; Cappelli, Mark. A.

doi:10.1063/1.4943370

Title: Radial magnetic compression in the expelled jet of a plasma deflagration accelerator

Journal Article · Mon Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943370· OSTI ID:1470320

Loebner, Keith T. K. ^[1];

^[1]; Mouratidis, Theodore ^[1]; Cappelli, Mark. A. ^[1]

Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)

Here, a spectroscopic study of a pulsed plasma deflagration accelerator is carried out that confirms the existence of a strong compression in the emerging jet at the exit plane of the device. An imaging spectrometer is used to collect broadened Hα emission from a transaxial slice of the emerging jet at high spatial resolution, and the radial plasma density profile is computed from Voigt fits of the Abel inverted emissivity profiles. The plasma temperature, determined via Doppler broadening of impurity line emission, is compared against the temperature predictions of a radial magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium model applied to the measured density profiles. Empirical scaling laws developed for the plasma density, combined with the measured and predicted temperatures, indicate that a radially equilibrated Z-pinch is formed within the expelled plasma jet at the exit plane during the deflagration process.

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Research Organization:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: NA0002011

OSTI ID:: 1470320

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1240202

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108, Issue 9; ISSN 0003-6951

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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