Neutron and soft X-ray emission from wire array Z-pinch imploding onto deuterated fiber

Author

Klir, Daniel ; Kravarik, Jozef ; Kubes, Pavel ; Bakshaev, Yury L. ; Blinov, Peter I. ; Chemenko, A.S. ; Hongchun, Cai ; Ivanov, Michaill ; Korolev, Valery D. ; Korelsky, Alexander V. ; Kravchenko, Elena V. ; Shashkov, Andrey Yu ; Ustroev, Gennady I.

Author_Institution

Czech Tech. Univ., Prague, Czech Republic

fYear

2004

fDate

18-23 July 2004

Firstpage

778

Lastpage

781

Abstract

The implosion of a wire array Z-pinch onto a deuterated fiber was studied on S-300 device (4 MA, 700 kV, 100 ns; RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow). The peak power of soft X-rays exceeded 200 OW and the total emitted energy was 2÷8 kJ. The radiation was close to the radiation of the blackbody with the temperature of 40 eV. The neutron yield from the D-D reaction reached 2×10⁸ per shot. The mean energy of neutrons determined from time-of-flight analysis in the axial direction (downstream) was shifted from 2.45 MeV towards higher energies.

Keywords

Z pinch; exploding wires; explosions; plasma X-ray sources; D-D reaction; S-300 device; axial direction; blackbody radiation; current 4 MA; deuterated fiber; electron volt energy 2.45 MeV; electron volt energy 40 eV; mean neutron energy; neutron emission; neutron yield; peak power; soft X-ray emission; time 100 ns; time-of-flight analysis; total emitted energy; voltage 700 kV; wire array Z-pinch implosion; Neutrons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS 2004), 2004 International Conference on

Conference_Location

St. Petersburg

Print_ISBN

978-5-87911-088-3

Type

conf

Filename

6220659