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A review of recent z-pinch research at Maxwell Physics International

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2002

P.L. COLEMAN ,
B.H. FAILOR ,
J.S. LEVINE ,
J.C. RIORDAN ,
Y. SONG ,
H. SZE  and
E.M. WAISMAN
P.L. COLEMAN
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 Now at Alameda Applied Sciences Corporation, 2235 Polvorosa Ave., #230, San Leandro, CA 94577, USA.
B.H. FAILOR
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
J.S. LEVINE
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
J.C. RIORDAN
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
Y. SONG
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 Now at Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
H. SZE
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577
E.M. WAISMAN
Affiliation:
Titan Pulsed Sciences (formerly Maxwell Physics International), 2700 Merced Street, San Leandro, CA 94577 Now at Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Abstract

During the last few years, we have concentrated on developing plasma radiation sources (PRS) for the longer current rise time (up to 300 ns) of the direct-drive Decade Quad (DQ; Price et al., 1999). In particular, we have developed an argon gas-puff PRS that produces a high quality pinch with an ∼200-ns implosion time, twice the implosion time of typical z pinches. We have shown that large-diameter, solid-fill (i.e., the gas density is a smooth function of the radial distance rather than a discrete shell) gas puffs can achieve adequate heating and stability for long-implosion z pinches with good K-shell yield.

Type
Z-PINCH ARTICLES
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 409 - 441
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press

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