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@inproceedings{Bland:1998,
author = {Bland, SN and Lebedev, SV and Aliaga-Rossel, R and Mitchell, IH and Chittenden, JP and Dangor, AE and Haines, MG},
title = {Plasma jet for pre-conditioning of a carbon fibre Z-pinch},
year = {1998}
}
TY - CPAPER
AB - Previous experiments on the Imperial College MAGPIE generator have shown that plasma produced from the pre-ionization of 33 μm carbon fibres, by current pre-pulse, helps reduce expansion velocity during initial stages of explosion. However the current-ablative method used gives very little control over the pre-ionization plasmas characteristics. A capillary discharge device has been developed to inject a plasma jet around a fibre to use instead of the fibre pre-ionization by current pre-pulse. This allows us to produce plasma with larger line densities and diameters in a more controllable way. Interferometer measurements on the jet have shown it can develop plasma around the fibre with a line density about 10<sup>18</sup> cm<sup>-1</sup> and diameters varying from approximately 2 mm at the point of injection (anode) to approximately 1 cm at the cathode of the Z-pinch. It is planned to use an axial magnetic field of approximately 2 KG to try to improve the homogeneity of the jet along the fibre. Comparison of the results of carbon fibre z-pinch experiments taken with and without the plasma jet will be presented.
AU - Bland,SN
AU - Lebedev,SV
AU - Aliaga-Rossel,R
AU - Mitchell,IH
AU - Chittenden,JP
AU - Dangor,AE
AU - Haines,MG
PY - 1998///
SN - 0730-9244
TI - Plasma jet for pre-conditioning of a carbon fibre Z-pinch
ER -
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