Temporal Correlations Between Hard X-Ray and Neutron Pulses in the PACO Plasmas Focus Device

HORACIO BRUZZONE; MARÍA MAGDALENA MILANESE; JORGE J. NIEDBALSKI; HUGO NÉSTOR ACUÑA; ROBERTO LUIS MOROSO; JORGE L. SUPÁN; SANTIAGO GUICHÓN; FLORENCIA MALAMUD

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2010 vol. 38 p. 1592 - 1597

0093-3813

An experimental study on the fluctuations in the instants of time and amplitudes of the peaks in the voltage, current time derivative, X-rays, and neutron signals during a 150-shot series in a 2 kJ Plasma Focus device is presented. The results show a reasonable correlation between the time of the voltage peak and that of X-ray emission, in agreement with the picture of the formation of an electron beam accelerated by this voltage. However, the time differences between X-rays and neutron maximum emission are difficult to interpret in terms of a common origin.