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Acceleration of protons and deuterons up to 35 MeV and generation of $10^{13}$ neutrons in a megaampere deuterium gas-puff z-pinch
| Content Provider | Scilit |
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| Author | Klír, Daniel Shishlov, A. V. Kokshenev, Vladimir A. Kubes, Pavel Rezac, Karel Buryskova, Simona Cherdizov, Rustam K. Cikhardt, Jakub Cikhardtova, Balzhima Dudkin, Gennady Nikolaevich Engelbrecht, Joseph T. Fursov, Fedor I. Jackson, Stuart L. Krasa, Josef Kravarik, Jozef Kurmaev, Nikolay E. Munzar, Vojtech Padalko, Vladimir N. Ratakhin, Nikolai A. Sila, Ondrej Turek, Karel Varlachev, Valery A. Wagner, Richard |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Description | Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion The acceleration of hydrogen ions up to 35 MeV is observed in the z-pinch experiments on the GIT-12 generator at a 3 MA current and 0.6 MV driving voltage. High ion energies are obtained with a novel configuration of a deuterium gas-puff z-pinch. In this configuration, a hollow cylindrical plasma shell is injected around an inner deuterium gas puff to form a homogeneous, uniformly conducting layer between electrodes at the initial phase of z-pinch implosion. The stable implosion at the velocity up to 650 km/s is important to deliver more current onto the z-pinch axis. Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities become apparent first at stagnation. After the disruptive development of m=0 instabilities, ≈20 ns pulses of high-energy photons, neutrons, electrons, and ions are observed. The average neutron yield is 2×1012. The ion emission is characterized by various diagnostic techniques including those based on the usage of neutron-producing samples. When a large neutron-producing sample is placed onto the axis below a cathode mesh, the neutron yield is increased up to (1.1± 0.3)×1013. Considering a ≈130 kJ energy input into z-pinch plasmas and magnetic field, this implies the neutron production efficiency of ≈108 neutrons per one joule of the z-pinch energy. |
| Related Links | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aadc99/pdf |
| ISSN | 07413335 |
| e-ISSN | 13616587 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1361-6587/aadc99 |
| Journal | Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 61 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing |
| Publisher Date | 2018-08-23 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Nuclear Energy and Engineering |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear Energy and Engineering |
