Soft x ray emission from a gas-puff z-pinch plasma
Abstract
Soft x ray emission or radiation was studied by using a gas-puff z-pinch device, which has no triggered switch. A PIN-photodiode covered by aluminum was used for the detection of soft x rays. Three kinds of spatial emission patterns were observed from measurement using a pinhole camera. Hot spots were observed near the middle of the discharge. In order to determine the pressure of the gas during the discharge, a simulation of a gas-puff z-pinch plasma was done with the snow plow model. The gas pressure is supposed as approximately 1 Torr.
- Publication:
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National Inst. for Fusion Science, Proceedings of a Workshop on Emissions from Heavy Current Carrying High Density Plasma and Diagnostics
- Pub Date:
- May 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991nifs.work...75U
- Keywords:
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- Gas Pressure;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Simulation;
- X Rays;
- Zeta Pinch;
- Aluminum;
- P-I-N Junctions;
- Photodiodes;
- Pinhole Cameras;
- Switches;
- Plasma Physics