Results of Russian/US high-performance DEMG experiment

Author

Buyko, A.M. ; Bidylo, N.P. ; Chernyshev, V.K. ; Demidov, V.A. ; Garanin, S.F. ; Kostyukov, V.N. ; Kulagin, A.A. ; Kuzyaev, A.I. ; Mezhevov, A.B. ; Mokhov, V.N. ; Pavlovskiy, E.S. ; Petrukhin, A.A. ; Yakubov, V.B. ; Yegorychev, B.T. ; Canada, J.W. ; Ekdahl

Author_Institution

All-Russia Sci. Res. Inst. of Exp. Phys., Nizhni Novgorod, Russia

Volume

25

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

154

Abstract

In November 1992, the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), Arzamas-16, Russia and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos NM, USA embarked on a historic effort to conduct a joint explosive pulse-power experiment. With the concurrence of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Russia) and the Department of Energy (US), the two laboratories entered into a laboratory-to-laboratory collaboration in the areas of very high-energy pulse power and ultrahigh magnetic fields in order to explore problems of mutual scientific interest. The first experiment to be planned was an explosively powered, fast, high-current pulse-power system demonstration. The experiment used a flux compressor, inductive store, and high-current opening switch to demonstrate the feasibility of supplying many megajoules of electrical energy, on microsecond time scales, to high-energy density physics experiments. The experiment was conducted in Arzamas-16 on September 22, 1993

Keywords

inductive energy storage; power supplies to apparatus; pulse generators; pulsed power switches; pulsed power technology; Arzamas-16; disk explosive magnetic generator; electrical megajoule energy; explosive pulse-power experiment; explosively powered fast high-current pulse-power system demonstration; flux compressor; high-current opening switch; high-energy density physics; high-performance DEMG experiment; inductive store; laboratory-to-laboratory collaboration; microsecond time scales; ultrahigh magnetic fields; very high-energy pulse power; Capacitors; Current measurement; Dielectrics; Explosives; Fuses; Laboratories; Physics; Preamplifiers; Solids; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0093-3813

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/27.602485

Filename

602485