NUKLEONIKA 2001, 46(Supplement 1):s25-s27

ROLE OF INITIAL VAPOR DENSITY IN Z-PINCH POLYACETAL CAPILLARY DISCHARGE

Pavel Vrba¹, Miroslava Vrbova², Milan Kalal², Alexandr Janacarek², Anton Fojtik²

¹ Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, 3 Za Slovankou Str., 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic
² Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, 7 Brehova Str., 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic

An analysis of a Z-pinch in a capillary discharge is presented. It is supposed that the capillary is filled with a material ablated from the wall using a subnanosecond laser pulse of an energy of several tens of milijoules. The optimum initial atom density N₀ has been found.

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