Atlas Pulsed Power System: a Driver for Multi-Megagauss Fields
Atlas is a pulsed power machine designed for hydrodynamic experiments for the Los Alamos High Energy Density Physics Experimental program. It is presently under construction and should be operational in late 2000. Atlas will store 23 MJ at an erected voltage of 240 kV. This will produce a current of 30 MA into a static load and as much as 32 MA into a dynamic load. The current pulse will have a rise time of {approximately}5{micro}s and will produce a magnetic field driving the impactor liner of several hundred Tesla at the target radius of one to two centimeters. The collision can produce shock pressures of {approximately}15 megabars. Design of the pulsed power system will be presented along with data obtained from the Atlas prototype Marx module.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Defense Programs (DP) (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 759338
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-98-4527; TRN: US0004337
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Megagauss Magnetic Field Generation and Related Topics, Tallahassee, FL (US), 10/18/1998--10/23/1998; Other Information: PBD: 18 Oct 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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