Artigo Revisado por pares

Temporally and Spatially Resolved X-Ray Emission from a Collapsing-Gas-Shell Z -Pinch Plasma

1985; American Physical Society; Volume: 55; Issue: 19 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.55.1993

ISSN

1092-0145

Autores

L. A. Jones, D. R. Kania,

Tópico(s)

Plasma Diagnostics and Applications

Resumo

We have observed a new phenomenon in the pinched phase of an argon collapsing-gas-shell $Z$-pinch. An x-ray streak camera was used to observe the hard-x-ray (>1 keV) emission as a function of $Z$ position and time. The streak photographs show that at a given $Z$ location the x-ray emission "winks." We have developed a model based upon runaway electrons interacting with ions to explain this phenomenon.

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