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We have studied the characteristics of an X-ray source based on a gas diode filled with air at atmospheric pressure. Driven by a SLEP-150 pulser with a maximum voltage amplitude of ∼140 kV, a pulse full width at half maximum (FWHM) of ∼1 ns, and a leading front width of ∼0.3 ns, a soft X-ray source produces subnanosecond pulses with an FWHM not exceeding 600 ps and an exposure dose of ∼3 mR per pulse. It is shown that the main contribution to the measured exposure dose is due to X-ray quanta with an effective energy of ∼7.5 keV.
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Original Russian Text © I.D. Kostyrya, V.F. Tarasenko, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 54–60.
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Kostyrya, I.D., Tarasenko, V.F. Subnanosecond pulsed X-ray source based on nanosecond discharge in air at atmospheric pressure. Tech. Phys. Lett. 35, 508–510 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378500906008X
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