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Generation of Ultra Hard X-Ray Radiation by Compression of Aluminum Wire Arrays
At the S-300 facility (2 MA, 400 kV, 100 ns), the generation of ultra hard X-rays was observed upon magnetic compression of cylindrical nested aluminum arrays with a linear mass of ~350 μg/cm, consisting of al...
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Use of Condensed Deuterium and Cryogenic Monodisperse Targets as Loads for Studying Megaampere Z-Pinches
Based on the analysis of the results of experiments on deuterated fibers, frozen deuterium fibers, and heterogeneous low-density targets, it can be concluded that low-density monodisperse cryogenic targets wit...
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Study of the Compression Dynamics of a Fiber Liner with a Deuterated Target Mounted on the Axis
Compression of a fiber array with a deuterated target mounted on its axis is studied at the Angara-5-1 facility (3.5 MA, 100 ns). Cylindrical arrays with an initial diameter of 12 mm made from polypropylene fi...
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Electric Explosion of a Surface Carrying a Megaampere Current
The formation of plasma on the surface of a current-carrying electrode of a high-current facility when a current flows through it with a linear density of up to 4 MA/cm and is coated with lead foil or ceramic ...
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Study of the Compression of a Condensed Deuterated Target Installed on the Wire Array Axis
The implosion of combined loads consisting of an outer wire (fiber) array and inner cylindrical target was studied experimentally at the Angara-5-1 facility (3.5 MA, 100 ns) at currents of up to 3.5 MA. The ex...
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Implosion dynamics of condensed Z-pinch at the Angara-5-1 facility
The implosion dynamics of a condensed Z-pinch at load currents of up to 3.5 MA and a current rise time of 100 ns was studied experimentally at the Angara-5-1 facility. To increase the energy density, 1- to 3-m...
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Measurements of the parameters of a condensed deuterated Z-pinch on the angara-5-1 facility
Results are presented from measurements of the parameters of high-temperature plasma in the Z-pinch neck formed when a current of up to 3.5 MA flows through a low-density polymer load. To enhance the effect of...
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Generation and anisotropy of neutron emission from a condensed Z-pinch
The paper presents results of measurements of neutron emission generated in the constriction of a fast Z-pinch at the S-300 facility (2 MA, 100 ns). An increased energy concentration was achieved by using a co...
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Formation of hot spots in the plasma of a Z-pinch produced from low-density deuterated polyethylene
Results are presented from experimental studies of the plasma formation dynamics in a Z-pinch produced from a cylindrical microporous agar-agar load. The experiments were performed on the S-300 facility at a c...
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X-pinch-based neutron source
Results are presented from experimental studies of the parameters of an X-pinch-based neutron source made of 70- to 80-μm-diameter deuterated polyethylene fibers. At currents of up to 1.7 MA and a current rise...
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Measuring of spatio-temporal characteristics Z-pinch from deuterated polyethylene
On the S-300 installation at currents up to 2 MA with rise time 100 ns, the investigation of the formation process of high-temperature plasma in fast Z-pinch was carried out. The central part of the loads was ...
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Studies of plasma dynamics in megampere X-pinches
Results are presented from experimental studies of the dynamics and parameters of the plasma generated by megampere (up to 2.3 MA) currents flowing through X-pinches formed from crossed wires made of various m...
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Transportation properties of a high-current magnetically insulated transmission line and dynamics of the electrode plasma
Results are presented from experimental studies of a section of a magnetically insulated transmission line (MITL) with a current density of up to 500 MA/cm2 and linear current density of up to 7 MA/cm (the parame...
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Investigations of the mega-ampere multiwire X pinch
The results of experimental investigations into the dynamics of a plasma produced in the multiwire X pinch at currents up to 2.3 MA are presented. The materials, diameters, and the number of wires are varied. ...
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Neutron emission during the implosion of a wire array onto a deuterated fiber
Results are presented from Z-pinch experiments performed in the S-300 facility (Kurchatov Institute) at a maximum current of 2 MA and current rise time of 100 ns. The Z-pinch load was a 1-cm-long 1-cmdiameter ...
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Improvement of spinning-machine drives
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Neutron generation from Z-pinches
Recent advances in both experimental and theoretical studies on neutron generation in various Z-pinch facilities are reviewed. The main methods for enhancing neutron emission from the Z-pinch plasma are descri...
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Study of the dynamics of the electrode plasma in a high-current magnetically insulated transmission line
A series of experiments was carried out in the S-300 facility (3 MA, 0.15 Θ, 100 ns) to study the behavior of a section of a magnetically insulated transmission line (MITL) at current densities of up to 500 MA/cm
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Energy transportation via MITL by the linear current flow density up to 7 MA/cm
The transmission properties of the magnetically self-insulated vacuum transporting line (MITL) were studied on the S-300 pulsed power machine (3 MA, 100 ns) at the high linear current flow density up to dI/db = 7...
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Experiments on the implosion of heterogeneous wire arrays on the S-300 facility
Results are presented from experiments on the implosion of simple and nested wire arrays of different mass and material composition (W and/or Al). The experiments were performed on the S-300 facility (a high-c...
