Diagnostics of low energy carbon fibre Z-pinch

In this paper there are presented results of measurements of X-rays, fast electrons, ions. and schlieren pictures an exploding carbon fibre of 6µm in diameter, located between tips of the conical electrodes within a small 0.5 kJ Z-pinch facility. Thin fibres are often used as the load in Z-pinch experiments due to high initial cylindrical symmetry for a simple source of X-ray emission from low- and high-energy facilities [1]. In our experiments a strongly asymmetric source of XUV radiation and relatively long X-ray emission was observed.