Xiaobing Zou et al 2005 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 14 268 doi:10.1088/0963-0252/14/2/007
Xiaobing Zou, Xinxin Wang, Chengmu Luo and Min Han
Show affiliationsA small neon gas-puff z-pinch device was constructed, and the plasma implosion and its radiation characteristics were studied experimentally. The plasma implosion was investigated using a three-frame Mach–Zehnder interferometer (TFMZI) that is capable of taking three pictures (5 ns exposure and 13 ns interpicture delay) within a single z-pinch shot. Thermopiles were also used in the experiments with the TFMZI to study the correlation between the total energy of x-ray emission and the plasma implosion. The ion beams from the z-pinch plasma were analysed using a compact Thomson spectrometer. Based on the experiments, the imploding velocity and electron density of the plasma shell were obtained, a conclusion that a nearly uniform and symmetric imploding plasma shell would emit a higher x-ray yield than an asymmetric one was drawn and the charge state resolved energy spectra of ion beams emitted from the z-pinch plasma were plotted.
52.80.Qj Explosions; exploding wires
52.25.Os Emission, absorption, and scattering of electromagnetic radiation
Issue 2 (May 2005)
Received 6 July 2004
Published 8 March 2005
Xiaobing Zou et al 2005 Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 14 268
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