Diagnosing Electrode Surfaces on the Z-Machine Using Optical Spectroscopy
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Signatures of preheat performance in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion experiments from time-resolved stimulated Raman and Brillouin backscatter spectra
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Uncovering signatures of preheat performance in MagLIF experiments using stimulated Raman and Brillouin backscatter spectra
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Measurements of Z Electrode Temperatures Using Absolutely Calibrated Streaked Visible Spectroscopy Systems and Avalanche Photodiodes
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Millimeter-gap magnetically insulated transmission line power flow experiments
Digest of Technical Papers-IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference
An experiment platform has been designed to study vacuum power flow in magnetically insulated transmission lines (MITLs) the platform is driven by the Mykonos-V LTD accelerator to drive a coaxial MITL with a millimeter-scale anode-cathode gap the experiments conducted quantify the current loss in the MITL with respect to vacuum pumpdown time and vacuum pressure. MITL gaps between 1.0 mm and 1.3 mm were tested the experiment results revealed large differences in performance for the 1.0 and 1.3 mm gaps the 1.0 mm gap resulted in current losses of 40%-60% of the peak current the 1.3 mm gap resulted in current losses of less than 5% of peak current. Classical MITL models that neglect plasma expansion predict that there should be zero current loss, after magnetic insulation is established, for both of these gaps.
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