DocumentCode
563796
Title
Neutron production in super-fast deuterated Z-pinches
Author
Bakshaev, Yu.L. ; Blinov, P.I. ; Hernenko, A. S C ; Dan, S.A. ; Gordeev, E.M. ; Kingsep, A.S. ; Korolev, V.D. ; Medovschikov, S.F. ; Mescherov, B.R. ; Nedoseev, S.L. ; Smirnova, E.A. ; Tumanov, V.I. ; Shashkov, A.Yu. ; Vikhrev, V.V.
Author_Institution
Russian Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” 123182, Moscow, Russia
fYear
2000
fDate
20-25 June 2000
Firstpage
450
Lastpage
453
Abstract
In the experiments with profiled agar-agar cylindrical loads filled with deuterated polyethylene, at Z-pinch currents up to 2.7 MA, the neutron radiation of several nanoseconds duration and energies of neutrons of 2.5 MeV, corresponding to D-D reaction neutrons, was registered. The time integrated neutron yield was 106 neutrons per one shot. The neutron radiation appeared at the time when hard X-ray radiation with quanta energies hυ > 30 keV was generated at the stage when the hot (Ti = 3–13 keV) dense (Ne = 1022 cm−3) plasma in the Z-pinch neck was forming. The carried out neutron radiation measurements, when only single Z-pinch neck is developed show the correlation of neutron production time with a short time of high temperature plasma existence in this neck.
Keywords
Anodes; Cathodes; Read only memory;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
High-Power Particle Beams, 2000 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Nagaoka, Japan
Type
conf
Filename
6220206
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