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Rev Sci Instrum
; 81(10): 10E312, 2010 Oct.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21034011
RESUMEN
Soft x-ray emission from a Mather-type plasma-focus device (PF-1000) operated at â¼400 kJ was measured. The high density and temperature plasma were generated by the discharge in the deuterium-argon gas mixture in the modified (high-current) plasma-focus configuration. A spherically bent mica crystal spectrograph viewing the axial output of the pinch region was used to measure the x-ray spectra. Spatially resolved spectra including the characteristic x-ray lines of highly ionized Ar and continua were recorded by means of an x-ray film. The x-ray emission of PF-1000 device was studied at different areas of the pinch.