A Study of the Fine Structure of a Plasma Focus Using the Perforated Camera Obscura Method,

Abstract

The present work consists of developing an x-ray camera obscura method to study the final cumulation stage of a shell during noncylindrical compression of the Z-pinch. Selection of orifices from 4 to 44 micrometers and photography from two mutually perpendicular directions permitted the authors to determine the plasma-focus (PF) diameter more accurately, to detect the complex fine structure of the high-temperature zone connected with a value of the neutron yield and the intensity of the hard x-ray radiation, and to compare the experimental values of the PF dimensions with those determined. From the obtained experimental results the density of the charged particles in the given PF is estimated. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 04, 1971
Accession Number
AD0727873

Entities

People

  • M. P. Moiseeva
  • N. V. Filippov
  • T. I. Filippova
  • V. I. Agafonov

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Charged Particles
  • Hard X Rays
  • High Temperature
  • Photographic Equipment
  • Photography
  • Radiation
  • X Rays
  • Z-Pinches

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Structural Dynamics.