Hard X-ray sources from miniature plasma focus devices

Autor: Raspa, Verónica, Silva, Patricio, Moreno, José G., Zambra, Marcelo, Soto, Leopoldo
Přispěvatelé: Instituto de Física de Plasma [Buenos Aires] (INFIP), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales [Buenos Aires] (FCEyN), Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA)-Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), PLADEMA (PLADEMA), Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica [ARGENTINA] (CNEA)-Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UNICEN)-Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas [Buenos Aires] (CIC), Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology Laboratory, Chilean Nuclear Energy Commission, Silva, Patricio
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2004
Předmět:
Popis: 12th International Congress on Plasma Physics, 25-29 October 2004, Nice (France); As first stage of a program to design a repetitive pulsed radiation generator for industrial applications two miniature plasma foci have been designed and constructed at the Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear. The devices operate at an energy level of the order of tens of joules (PF-50J, 160 nF capacitor bank, 20-35 kV, 32-100 J, ~150 ns time to peak current) and hundred of joules (PF-400J, 880 nF, 20-35 kV, 176-539 J, ~300 ns time to peak current). Hard X-rays are being studied in these devices operating in hydrogen. Images of metallic plates with different thickness were obtained on commercial radiographic film, Agfa Curix ST-G2, in order to characterize the energy of the hard X-ray outside of the discharge chamber of PF-400J. An effective energy of the order of 90keV was measured under those conditions. X ray images of different metallic objects also have been obtained.
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