Title | Developing An Extended Convolute Post To Drive An X-Pinch For Radiography At The Z Facility |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2021 |
Authors | Gomez, Matthew R., Myers, C.E., Hatch, M.W., Hutsel, B.T., Jennings, C.A., Lamppa, D.C., Lowinske, M.C., Maurer, A.J., Steiner, A.M., Tomlinson, K., Webb, T.J., Yager-Elorriaga, D. A., Ampleford, D.J. |
Conference Name | 2021 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) |
Date Published | sep |
Keywords | composability, Conferences, confinement, Fuels, Laser beams, laser theory, Magnetic confinement, Plasmas, privacy, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, X-ray lasers |
Abstract | X-ray radiography has been used to diagnose a wide variety of experiments at the Z facility including inertial confinement fusion capsule implosions, the growth of the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in solid liners, and the development of helical structures in axially magnetized liner implosions. In these experiments, the Z Beamlet laser (1 kJ, 1 ns) was used to generate the x-ray source. An alternate x-ray source is desirable in experiments where the Z Beamlet laser is used for another purpose (e.g., preheating the fuel in magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments) or when multiple radiographic lines of sight are necessary. |
DOI | 10.1109/ICOPS36761.2021.9588649 |
Citation Key | gomez_developing_2021 |