Title: The Imaging of Z-Pinches Using X-Pinch Backlighting
Abstract: Imaging using X‐pinch backlighters has been implemented on the COBRA accelerator at Cornell University to study the early stages of wire‐array Z‐pinches. Two of four return‐current posts in the wire‐array load region are replaced by X pinches so that two images of one wire in an eight‐wire z‐pinch are obtained from different angles and at different times. High resolution images have been obtained that show the evolution of wire structure and instabilities. X‐pinch wire diameter and other parameters were varied in order to shift the timing of the X pinches relative to the start of the z‐pinch current pulse. It was found that XPBL wire diameter (mass per unit length) has the strongest influence on radiation timing.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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