Emission produced at compression of deuterium current-sheath with wire in plasma focus discharge

• Published in: 2002 14th International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS) Vol. 2; pp. 193 - 196
• Main Authors: Kubes, Pavel, Kravarik, Jozef, Klir, Daniel, Scholz, Marek, Paduch, Marian, Tomaszewski, Krzysztof, Ivanova-Stanik, Irena, Bienkowska, Barbara, Karpinski, Leslaw, Ryc, Leszek, Juha, Libor, Krasa, Josef, Sadowski, Marek J., Jakubowski, Lech, Szydlowski, Adam, Banaszak, Aneta, Schmidt, Hellmut, Romanova, Vera M.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2002
• Subjects: Corona; P-i-n diodes; PIN photodiodes; Probes; Satellites
• ISBN: 9780735401075; 0735401071
• DOI: 10.1063/1.1531312

The implosion of a deuterium plasma toward an Al wire was performed at the current amplitudes of 1.5-1.8 MA. The Al wire of 120 µm diameter and 4-5 cm length was placed on the top of the inner electrode. Pulses of XUV radiation and soft X-rays were detected at the maximum compression of the plasma focus column. They contained lines of Al VI - Al Xm ions. The presence of the Al wire on the axis of plasma focus column caused a decrease in the hard X-ray production and neutron yield to about 30-50%. The neutron pulse was characterized by the FWHM ≈ 200 ns and the yield up to 5×10 10 . The maximum of the neutron production occurred up to 200 ns later than the maximum of the soft X-rays.