Mass-profile and instability-growth measurements for 300-wire Z-pinch implosions driven by 14-18 MA

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Sinars, D B ^a   Cuneo, M E ^a   Yu, E P ^a   Bliss, D E ^a   Nash, T J ^a   Porter, J L ^a   Deeney, C ^a   Mazarakis, M G ^a   Sarkisov, G S ^a   Wenger, D F ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PINCH EFFECT; PLASMA SIMULATION; PLASMAS; RADIATION; RADIOGRAPHY; TUNGSTEN; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CORONAL PLASMAS; MAGNETO-RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR (MRT) INSTABILITY; PEAK RADIATION POWER; TUNGSTEN WIRE ARRAYS;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 20844461492     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.145002     Document Type: Article

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