Recent Results of MJ Plasma-Focus Experiment.

Authors :: Scholz, M.
Paduch, M.
Tomaszewski, K.
Stepniewski, W.
Bienkowska, B.
Ivanova-Stanik, I.
Karpinski, L.
Miklaszewski, R.
Sadowski, M. J.
Jakubowski, L.
Malinowska, A.
Malinowski, K.
Skladnik-Sadowska, E.
Szydlowski, A.
Kubes, P.
Kravarik, J.
Barvir, P.
Klir, D.
Tsarenko, A. V.
Schmidt, H.
Source :: AIP Conference Proceedings; 2006, Vol. 808 Issue 1, p207-210, 4p
Publication Year :: 2006
Abstract: Plasma-Focus (PF) devices, which are based on high-voltage high-current pulse discharges, belong to the non-cylindrical Z-pinches. They produce high-temperature dense magnetized plasma and radiation pulses (of X-rays, electrons, ion beams and fusion protons). The paper reports on studies of intense soft (a few keV) X-ray emission, as performed with a four-frame X-ray camera, and their correlation with time-resolved measurements of current waveforms, neutrons, soft and hard X-rays. Possible mechanisms of the production of fusion neutrons (thermal and non-thermal) were also investigated on the basis of neutron pulses measured at different angels to the electrode outlet axis, and their comparison with time-resolved measurements of the soft and hard X-ray radiation. © 2006 American Institute of Physics [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]