In this paper,we give a review of some most powerful pulsed systems developed at the Institute of High Current Electronics(HCEI),Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,and describe latest achievements of the team...In this paper,we give a review of some most powerful pulsed systems developed at the Institute of High Current Electronics(HCEI),Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,and describe latest achievements of the teams dealing with these installations.Besides the presented high-power systems,HCEI performs numerous investigations using much less powerful generators.For instance,last year much attention was paying to the research and development of the intense low-energy(<200 kV)high-current electron and ion beam and plasma sources,and their application in the technology[1-3].展开更多
Z-pinch experiments with a hybrid configuration of a deuterium gas puff have been carried out on theHAWK(NRL,Washington,DC)and GIT-12(IHCE,Tomsk)pulsed power generators at 0.7 MA and 3MA currents,respectively.On GIT-1...Z-pinch experiments with a hybrid configuration of a deuterium gas puff have been carried out on theHAWK(NRL,Washington,DC)and GIT-12(IHCE,Tomsk)pulsed power generators at 0.7 MA and 3MA currents,respectively.On GIT-12,neutron yields reached an average value of 231012 neutrons,and deuterons were accelerated up to an energy of 30 MeV.This was 50 times the ion energy provided by the generator driving voltage of 0.6 MV and the highest energy observed in z-pinches and dense plasma foci.To confirm these unique results independently on another device,we performed several experimental campaigns on theHAWKgenerator.Comparison of the experiments onGIT-12 andHAWKhelped us to understand which parameters are essential for optimized neutron production.Since theHAWKgenerator is of a similar pulsed power architecture as GIT-12,the experiments on GIT-12 and HAWK are important for the study of how charged-particle acceleration scales with the current.展开更多
基金supported in part by Russian Foundation for Basic Research(project No.15-08-01324).
文摘In this paper,we give a review of some most powerful pulsed systems developed at the Institute of High Current Electronics(HCEI),Siberian Branch,Russian Academy of Sciences,and describe latest achievements of the teams dealing with these installations.Besides the presented high-power systems,HCEI performs numerous investigations using much less powerful generators.For instance,last year much attention was paying to the research and development of the intense low-energy(<200 kV)high-current electron and ion beam and plasma sources,and their application in the technology[1-3].
基金The authors are grateful toA.Yu.Labetsky and B.J.Sobocinski for their help with the experiments on GIT-12 and HAWK,respectively.This research has been supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic(Grant No.19-02545S)the Czech Ministry of Education(Grant Nos.LTT17015,LTAUSA17084,and CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_019/0000778)+1 种基金the Czech Technical University in Prague(Grant No.SGS19/167/OHK3/3T/13)the Naval Research Laboratory Base Program,and a TPU Competitiveness Enhancement Program grant.
文摘Z-pinch experiments with a hybrid configuration of a deuterium gas puff have been carried out on theHAWK(NRL,Washington,DC)and GIT-12(IHCE,Tomsk)pulsed power generators at 0.7 MA and 3MA currents,respectively.On GIT-12,neutron yields reached an average value of 231012 neutrons,and deuterons were accelerated up to an energy of 30 MeV.This was 50 times the ion energy provided by the generator driving voltage of 0.6 MV and the highest energy observed in z-pinches and dense plasma foci.To confirm these unique results independently on another device,we performed several experimental campaigns on theHAWKgenerator.Comparison of the experiments onGIT-12 andHAWKhelped us to understand which parameters are essential for optimized neutron production.Since theHAWKgenerator is of a similar pulsed power architecture as GIT-12,the experiments on GIT-12 and HAWK are important for the study of how charged-particle acceleration scales with the current.