Use of Z-pinch sources for high-pressure shock wave experiments
Abstract
Recent developments have demonstrated the use of pulsed power for producing intense radiation sources (z-pinches) that can drive planar shock waves in samples with spatial dimensions significantly larger than possible with other radiation sources. In this paper, we will discuss the use of z-pinch sources for shock wave studies at multi-Mbar pressures. Experimental plans to use the technique for absolute shock Hugoniot measurements and with accuracies comparable to that obtained with gun launchers are discussed.
- Publication:
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The Tenth American Physical Society topical Conference on shock compression of condensed matter
- Pub Date:
- July 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.55685
- Bibcode:
- 1998AIPC..429..997K
- Keywords:
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- 52.55.Ez;
- 52.35.Tc;
- Theta pinch;
- Shock waves and discontinuities