Experimental investigations of REB properties in plasma focus and the experiments on combined laser +REB-plasma interaction

A number of the power pinching discharges has been developed during the last 20 years: Z-pinch, plasma focus, vacuum spark and so on. The motivation for developing the electromagnetic implosion technique is to produce a hot dense plasma to achieve the fusion conditions .. The plasma parameters n_e ≥ 10¹⁹cm^-3, T_e 1-10 keV as we as high level of neutron radiation (up to 10¹² neutrons per shot in plasma focus) have been reached already .. At the same time the power full streams of the accelerated electrons and ions formed in a plasma were found to appear at the current rupture stage. The energy of these particles is several times more than the maximal bank voltage Thus, one can consider snob a discharge as some kind of electron on ion accelerator.