Producing High Energy Photons Using Titanium Prs Loads

Abstract

Because of the large amount of kinetic energy and mass needed for efficient production of K-shell emission from a high Z plasma, it is reasonable to assume that high Z experiments will take place at relatively low {eta} values, where {eta} is the ratio of the kinetic-energy-per-ion to the minimum amount of energy E{sub min} needed to ionize an atom to the K-shell in a thermal plasma. The earlier work made predictions for producing K-shell emission based on 1-D, radiative, magnetohydrodynamic, {eta} > 3, calculations. This has led them to perform similar 1-D calculations at {eta} values 4 keV photon yield obtained by recombination from high {eta} argon load implosions to that generated by K-shell emission from low {eta} titanium implosions.more » Again, these calculations are for an ACE IV class machine.« less