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Generating high-power hard X-ray pulses in a rod-pinch diode with radial foil

S. A. Sorokin

Institute of High Current Electronics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk

Abstract: A new method of low-impedance rod-pinch diode formation has been proposed and used. With this approach, the rod-pinch diode is preliminarily shorted by a thin radial foil. A low-impedance diode is formed when the foil, accelerated by current of a high-current generator, is detached from the anode rod. It is established that a series of sequential current closures via plasma of the foil and rod in this configuration can be used to obtain a train of short hard X-ray pulses.

Received: 21.03.2014

 English version: Technical Physics Letters, 2014, 40:8, 687–689

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