Neon PRS experiments on Hawk

Summary form only given. Neon gas-puff PRS experiments have been performed on the Hawk generator with and without a plasma opening switch. The POS driven load current rises to 500-600 kA in 75-100 ns and then remains essentially constant over several hundreds of ns. This wave form is ideal for evaluation of K-shell X-ray scaling with mass because mass scans can be performed for a given initial radius without substantially changing the implosion kinetic energy. Diagnostics include transmission line and load current monitors, a voltage monitor upstream of the opening switch, filtered vacuum X-ray diodes, a diamond photo-conducting detector, and a time integrated pinhole camera. It is planned to field a crystal spectrometer.