Charge Exchange and Ablation Rates of a Titanium Wire Plasma Corona

Journal Article · Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3079725· OSTI ID:21255335

Terry, Robert E ^[1]

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1. Enig Associates, Silver Spring, MD (United States)

Wire ablation rates are important features in any examination of precursors or transparent mode implosions of wire arrays. When ion temperatures in a Ti wire plasma corona exceed a few eV, the process of resonant charge exchange competes with elastic scattering. Ions pushed into the corona from an anode bias wire array can be expected to drive a fast neutral wind into the surrounding volume, while a cathode bias wire array would not show the strong neutral wind.

• OSTI ID: 21255335
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1088, Issue 1; Conference: 7. international conference on dense Z-pinches, Alexandria, VA (United States), 12-21 Aug 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3079725; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ABLATION
ANODES
CATHODES
CHARGE EXCHANGE
ELASTIC SCATTERING
EV RANGE
IMPLOSIONS
ION TEMPERATURE
PLASMA
TITANIUM
WIRES