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Hybrid X-pinches

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Results from experimental studies of a hybrid X-pinch with an initial configuration in the form of a high-current diode with conical tungsten electrodes spaced by 1–2 mm and connected to one another with 20- to 100-μm-diameter wires are presented. The experiments were carried out at four facilities with a current amplitude from 200 to 1000 kA and front duration from 45 to 200 ns. It is shown that, in spite of their simpler configuration, hybrid X-pinches with a short rise time of the current pulse (50–100 ns) are highly competitive with standard X-pinches in the generated soft X-ray power and the formation of a single hot spot in them is much more stable, while hard X-ray emission is almost absent. The possibility of using hybrid X-pinches as soft X-ray sources for point projection X-ray imaging of plasma objects is considered.

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  1. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    T. A. Shelkovenko, S. A. Pikuz, S. A. Mishin & A. R. Mingaleev

  2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow oblast, 141700, Russia

    I. N. Tilikin

  3. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    P. F. Knapp, A. D. Cahill, C. L. Hoyt & D. A. Hammer

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Original Russian Text © T.A. Shelkovenko, S.A. Pikuz, S.A. Mishin, A.R. Mingaleev, I.N. Tilikin, P.F. Knapp, A.D. Cahill, C.L. Hoyt, D.A. Hammer, 2012, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2012, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 395–418.

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Shelkovenko, T.A., Pikuz, S.A., Mishin, S.A. et al. Hybrid X-pinches. Plasma Phys. Rep. 38, 359–381 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X1204006X

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