• DocumentCode
    2206425
  • Title

    Demonstrated sub-nanosecond timing of waveform data in the distributed data acquisition at the Z facility

  • Author

    Mills, J.A. ; Slopek, J. ; Dinwoodie, T. ; McGurn, J.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Ktech Corp., Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    4-7 June 2000
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Abstract
    Summary form only given, as follows. A new experimental double wire array configuration on the Z Machine, consisting of one wire array above and one wire array below a Hohlram, was scheduled. The Experimenter requested diagnostic timing resolvable to less than 200 ps between different line-of-sight recording locations that would view the top and bottom Z-pinches. Several meters physically separate the lines-of-sight. A series of experiments, with geometry´s similar to the new experiment, were conducted between the time the request was made and the actual double wire array experiment. These tests allowed a demonstration of system timing accuracy prior to the experiment that required critical timing accuracy. This paper will detail these shots and the results obtained.
  • Keywords
    Z pinch; data acquisition; plasma diagnostics; plasma focus; Hohlram; Z Machine; Z facility; Z-pinches; diagnostic timing; distributed data acquisition; double wire array configuration; line-of-sight recording locations; subnanosecond timing; waveform data; Accuracy; Data acquisition; Geometry; Laboratories; Scheduling; System testing; Timing; Wire;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Plasma Science, 2000. ICOPS 2000. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 27th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA, USA
  • ISSN
    0730-9244
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-5982-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PLASMA.2000.854906
  • Filename
    854906