Radiation environments produced by plasma z-pinch stagnation on central targets
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico87545 (United States)
A goal of pulsed-power technology is the development of an intense, megajoule level source of soft x rays for use in high-energy density physics experiments. Experimental facilities, theoretical concepts, computational tools, and diagnostics that have been developed since 1980 place pulsed power at the threshold of performing experiments of great interest to the applied physics community. In this paper the {open_quotes}Flying Radiation Case{close_quotes} approach will be presented and its predicted performance on Sandia National Laboratory{close_quote}s Z-Machine [M. K. Matzen, Phys. Plasmas {bold 4}, 1519 (1997)] will be described. The effects of instability growth in the plasma during the implosion, its reassembly on a central cushion, and the plasma interactions with shaped electrodes are considered. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 627797
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-971103-; ISSN 1070-664X; TRN: 98:006149
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 5, Issue 5; Conference: 39. annual meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA (United States), 17-21 Nov 1997; Other Information: PBD: May 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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