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

C. DEENEY; C.A. COVERDALE; M.R. DOUGLAS

doi:10.1017/S0263034601193079

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.

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