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Experiments presented in this thesis were undertaken on the MAGPIE facility at Imperial College London [1].
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Burdiak, G.C. (2014). The MAGPIE Generator and Diagnostics. In: Cylindrical Liner Z-pinches as Drivers for Converging Strong Shock Experiments. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06962-3_2
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