X-ray emission from the interaction of a macroscopic particle with a dense plasma focus
Thesis/Dissertation
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OSTI ID:7284751
Recently the interest in dense plasma focus has greatly increased because of the possibility of developing the device into an intense, pulsed radiation source of x-rays and neutrons for test purposes. Various experimenters have tried to scale up their radiation intensities by using large capacitor banks. Yet experimental results show that besides the engineering problems associated with the machine as the bank voltage or capacitance goes up, the intensity cannot be scaled up indefinitely by increasing the bank energy. This work proposed a new, alternative way to enhance the x-ray radiation by using a macroscopic particle to interact with a plasma focus. A theoretical and experimental study was carried out to predict the relative amount of x-ray increase when a macroscopic particle was placed in the focus region.
- Research Organization:
- Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 7284751
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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