Wire array Z-pinch experiments on magpie facility

Author

Lebedev, S.V. ; Bland, S.N. ; Burdiak, G. ; Chittenden, J.P. ; Harvey-Thomson, A. ; Hall, G.N. ; de Grouchy, P. ; Suttle, L. ; Suzuki-Vidal, F.A. ; Swadling, G. ; Khoory, E. ; Pickworth, L. ; Skidmore, J.

Author_Institution

Blackett Lab., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

26-30 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Summary form only given. Results of several recent experiments with wire array Z-pinches on the MAGPIE facility (1.5MA, 250ns) will be presented. We will report on the use of Thomson scattering diagnostic for measurements of plasma parameters in Al and W cylindrical wire arrays and for measurements of velocities of supersonic radiatively cooled plasma jets in conical and radial wire arrays. We will also present measurements of the plasma distribution inside wire arrays during the ablation phase, obtained with laser interferometer.

Keywords

Z pinch; aluminium; plasma diagnostics; plasma jets; plasma transport processes; tungsten; velocity measurement; Al; MAGPIE facility; Thomson scattering diagnostics; W; cylindrical wire arrays; laser interferometer; plasma parameters; supersonic radiatively cooled plasma jets; velocity measurement; wire array z-pinch experiment; Wires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science (ICOPS), 2011 Abstracts IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-330-8

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2011.5993254

Filename

5993254