Energy- and time-resolved measurements of fast ions emitted from plasma-focus discharges by means of a Thomson spectrometer

R. Kwiatkowski; K. Czaus; M. Paduch; M. J. Sadowski; E. Skladnik-Sadowska; D. R. Zaloga; E. Zielinska; J. Żebrowski

doi:10.1117/12.2205773

11 September 2015 Energy- and time-resolved measurements of fast ions emitted from plasma-focus discharges by means of a Thomson spectrometer

R. Kwiatkowski, K. Czaus, M. Paduch, M. J. Sadowski, E. Skladnik-Sadowska, D. R. Zaloga, E. Zielinska, J. Żebrowski

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Proceedings Volume 9662, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2015; 96622U (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205773
Event: XXXVI Symposium on Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments (Wilga 2015), 2015, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

The paper presents results of time-resolved measurements of fast deuterons emitted from high-current discharges of the Plasma-Focus (PF) type. The measurements were performed in a modified PF-1000U facility which is operated at the IFPiLM in Warsaw, Poland. The device was equipped with a fast-acting gas valve placed inside the inner electrode and oriented along the z-axis. The valve could inject a small volume of a chosen gas in front of this electrode. The PF discharges were initiated at the initial deuterium pressure equal to 1.6 or 2 hPa, with or without the use of the gas-puffing. Such discharges emitted intense beams of accelerated primary ions and X-ray pulses as well as products of nuclear fusion reactions.

The reported measurements of the fast ion beams were performed by means of a Thomson-type spectrometer located at a chosen distance at the z-axis and equipped with miniature scintillation detectors. These detectors were placed in different points upon the deuteron parabola which corresponded to determined energy values. The detectors configuration allowed us to determine instants of the ion emission (using a TOF technique) and to compare them with instants of the X-ray emission. The collected data provided important information about emission characteristics of the modified PF-1000U facility.

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R. Kwiatkowski, K. Czaus, M. Paduch, M. J. Sadowski, E. Skladnik-Sadowska, D. R. Zaloga, E. Zielinska, and J. Żebrowski "Energy- and time-resolved measurements of fast ions emitted from plasma-focus discharges by means of a Thomson spectrometer", Proc. SPIE 9662, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2015, 96622U (11 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2205773

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