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Characterization of composite rod-pinch-diode radiographic sources at 5 to 6 MV on Asterix

Mosher, D.; Allen, R.J.; Commisso, R.J.; Swanekamp, S.B.; Young, F.C.; Cooperstein, G.; Vermare, C.; Delvaux, J.; Hordé, Y.; Merle, E.; Nicolas, R.; Noré, D.; Pierret, O.; Rosol, Y.R.; Tailleur, Y.; Véron, L.; Bayol, F.; Garrigues, A.; Delbos, C.; Nicot, G.; Oliver, Bryan V.; Rose, D.V.; Rovang, Dean C.; Maenchen, John E.

Composite-rod-pinch loads on Asterix consisting of hollow aluminum tubes supporting either 1-cm-long, 1-mm-diam blunt-end or tapered gold slugs, or 1.5- to 2-mm-diam gold spheres are characterized. Composite-slug loads have slightly-lower doses than the 1.6- or 2-mm-diam standard rod pinches reported elsewhere and smaller spot sizes, leading to higher measured radiographic figures-of-merit (FOM). The FOM for the gold-sphere loads is substantially-smaller than for the slug loads.