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A review of long-implosion-time z pinches as efficient and high-power radiation sources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2002

C. DEENEY
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
C.A. COVERDALE
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
M.R. DOUGLAS
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA

Abstract

In the past few years, long-implosion-time (150 ns to 200 ns) z pinches have made significant progress in terms of their ability to make kilovolt X rays or to produce high-power subkilovolt emissions. These advances are enabling the community to utilize lower-cost pulsed power designs for high current X-ray facilities. The advances will be reviewed in historical context in this paper, plus some new physics regimes and understanding resulting from this work will be highlighted.

Type
Z-PINCH ARTICLES
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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