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A capillary plasma Z-pinch as an alternative active medium of soft X-ray lasers was studied experimentally and theoretically. The theoretical analysis was based on the self-consistent solution of the so called “snow-plow” model of plasma pinch together with feeding double-resonance circuit. The calculated development of the current as well as the evaluated pinch time are in good agreement with the measured ones. The experimental pinch time was evaluated from the time-resolved measurement of broad band soft X-ray emission.
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Vrba, P., Koláček, K., Vrbová, M. et al. Evolution on Z-pinch in argon-filled capillary. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 50, 1043–1050 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022831419027
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