DocumentCode
3227914
Title
Pulse power machines in the plasma physics group at Imperial College
Author
Worley, J.F.
Author_Institution
Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. & Med., London, UK
fYear
1997
fDate
35508
Abstract
Magpie was completed some four years ago and was constructed to investigate the radiative collapse in cryogenic fibres of hydrogen and deuterium. It was designed to produce up to 1.8 MA into a fibre z pinch load. This paper describes how Magpie uses four Hermes III type Marx generators, each connected to a 5 Ω pulse forming line and trigatron gas switches. The transfer section is 1.25 Ω and feeds a diode stack and a short conical MITL, which transfers the energy into the z-pinch load
Keywords
pulsed power switches; 1.25 ohm; 1.8 MA; 5 ohm; Hermes III type Marx generators; Magpie; cryogenic fibres; diode stack; fibre z pinch load; pulse forming line; radiative collapse; short conical MITL; transfer section; trigatron gas switches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
iet
Conference_Titel
Pulsed Power '97 (Digest No: 1997/075), IEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
London
Type
conf
DOI
10.1049/ic:19970426
Filename
644477
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