Distribution of matter in the current-carrying plasma and dense core of the discharge channel formed upon electrical wire explosion |
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Authors: | S I Tkachenko A R Mingaleev V M Romanova A E Ter-Oganes’yan T A Shelkovenko S A Pikuz |
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Affiliation: | 1.Lebedev Physical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia;2.Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,Dolgoprudny?, Moscow oblast,Russia |
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Abstract: | Distribution of matter in the discharge channel formed upon a nanosecond electrical explosion of a single wire in air and
vacuum was studied experimentally. Simultaneous use of optical, UV, and X-ray diagnostics made it possible to distinguish
qualitatively different regions of the discharge channel, such as the current-carrying layers and the region occupied by a
weakly conducting cold plasma. Several series of experiments with 25-μm-diameter 12-mm-long wires made of different materials
were performed. The charging voltage and the current amplitude were varied in the ranges of U
0 = 10–20 kV and I
max ∼ 5–10 kA, respectively. Explosion regimes with a current pause and with and without current interruption, as well as with
wire preheating in air and vacuum, were studied. Shadow and schlieren images of the discharge channel were obtained using
optical probing at the second harmonic of a YAG: Nd+3 laser (λ = 0.532 μm, τ ∼ 10 ns). In the experiments carried out in vacuum, X-ray images of the discharge channel were also
obtained using an X-pinch as a point source of probing radiation and UV images were recorded using a four-frame MCP camera. |
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