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Numerical experiments are carried out systematically to determine the argon soft X-Ray yield Y-sxr for optimized argon plasma focus with storage energy E-0 from 1 kJ to 1 MJ. The ratio c = b/a, of outer to inner radii; and the operating voltage V-0 are kept constant. E-0 is varied by changing the capacitance C-0. These numerical experiments were investigated on argon plasma focus at different operational gas pressures (0.41, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2.5 and 3 Torr) for two different values of static inductance L-0 (270 and 10 nH). Scaling laws on argon soft X-Ray yield, in terms of storage energies E-0, peak discharge current I-peak and focus pinch current I-pinch were found. It was found that the argon X-ray yields scale well with Y-sxr = 8 x 10 I--11(pinch)4.12 for the high inductance (270 nH) and Y-sxr = 7 x 10(-13)I(pinch)(4:94) for the low inductance (10 nH), (where yields are in joules and current in kilo amperes). While the soft X-ray yield scaling laws in terms of storage energies were found to be as Ysxr 0.05 x E-0(0.94) at energies in the 1-100 kJ region. The scaling %26apos;drops%26apos; as E-0 is increased, and Ysxr scales as Y-sxr = 1.01 x E-0(0.33) at high energies towards 1 MJ for 10 nH at argon gas pressure of 1 Torr. The optimum efficiencies for SXR yield were found to be 0.00077% with a capacitor bank energy of 112.5 kJ for high inductance (270 nH) and 0.005% with a capacitor bank energy of 4.5 kJ for low inductance (10 nH). Therefore for larger devices, it may be necessary to operate at a higher voltage and use higher driver impedance to ensure increasing X-ray yield efficiency beyond the optimum values. As storage energy is changed the required electrode geometry for optimum yield is obtained and the resultant plasma pinch parameters are found. Required values of axial speed for argon soft X-ray emission were found to be in the range 11-14 cm/mu s.
- 出版日期2012-4
- 单位南阳理工学院
