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Results are presented from experiments on the implosion of simple and nested wire arrays of different mass and material composition (W and/or Al). The experiments were performed on the S-300 facility (a high-current pulsed power generator with a voltage pulse amplitude of 700 kV, current amplitude of 2.5–3.5 MA, and pulse duration of 100 ns) at the Kurchatov Institute (Moscow). The imploding arrays were recorded using five-frame laser shadowgraphy, three-frame image-tube photography, an optical streak camera, X-ray pinhole cameras with different filters, X-ray polychromator, and X-ray spectrometer on the basis of a convex mica crystal. Laser probing measurements indicate that the current-carrying structure undergoes a fast (over a time shorter than 10 ns) global rearrangement, which manifests itself as the emergence of transparent regions. This effect is presumably related to the grouping of the wires, which carry currents of a few tens of kiloamperes, or to the current filamentation in their common plasma corona. The radiation of liners of different chemical composition in the final compressed state has been investigated. Electric measurements performed in experiments with nested arrays (e.g., with an aluminum outer liner and a tungsten inner liner) indicate that the inner array, which is still at rest, intercepts the electric current from the outer array when the latter penetrates through it. The effect of the “fall” of the outer liner through the inner one in the course of magnetic implosion has been revealed for the first time by analyzing X-ray emission spectra.
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Original Russian Text © Yu.G. Kalinin, A.S. Kingsep, V.P. Smirnov, Yu.L. Bakshaev, A.V. Bartov, P.I. Blinov, S.A. Dan’ko, L.G. Dubas, A.V. Korel’skiĭ, V.D. Korolev, V.I. Mizhiritskiĭ, G.I. Ustroev, A.S. Chernenko, R.V. Chikin, A.Yu. Shashkov, Li Zhenghong, Hua Xinsheng, Peng Xianjue, Feng Shupin, Guo Cun, Jiang Shilun, Ning Cheng, Song Fengjun, Xu Rongkun, Xu Zeping, Yan Chengli, Yang Jianlun, Yang Libin, 2006, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 714–726.
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Kalinin, Y.G., Kingsep, A.S., Smirnov, V.P. et al. Experiments on the implosion of heterogeneous wire arrays on the S-300 facility. Plasma Phys. Rep. 32, 656–667 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X06080034
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