DEVELOPMENT OF PLASMA TARGETS FOR INTERACTION EXPERIMENTS AT TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Authors
HOSOKAI T NAKAJIMA M IWASE O NAKAMURA T ENDOU T FUJII K AOKI T HORIOKA K KOHNO T OGURI Y MURAKAMI T MIYAMOTO S OGAWA M
Citation
T. Hosokai et al., DEVELOPMENT OF PLASMA TARGETS FOR INTERACTION EXPERIMENTS AT TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Fusion engineering and design, 32-3, 1996, pp. 551-556
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology
Journal title
Fusion engineering and design → ACNP
ISSN journal
09203796
Volume
32-3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
551 - 556
Database
ISI
SICI code
0920-3796(1996)32-3:<551:DOPTFI>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
A plasma target of z-pinch discharge is developed to obtain a hydrogen plasma of density approaching 10(18) cm(-3). The target plasma has a duration of about 1 mu s for an initial gas pressure of 80 Pa. Prior t o the gas flow type of target, the z-pinch process of a gas-filled dis charge tube was studied by comparison with a computer simulation. The behavior of the z pinch is understood in terms of the dynamics of a sh ock wave and a current boundary sheet. A laser-induced plasma is also examined as an alternative plasma target free from the plasma lens eff ect.