Evidence is presented that an axial magnetic field of 100 kG has been compressed to 42 MG by an imploding neon gas-puff Z pinch on a 800 kJ, 7.5 MA, 60 nsec pulsed power generator. Machine electrical diagnostics and x-ray pinhole photographs indicate that this 420-fold field compression was produced by imploding plasma at high magnetic Reynolds number.
36 elemental targets, beryllium through uranium, were irradiated with 8-nsec FWHM Nd : glass laser pulses focused to ∼4×1013 W/cm2. X-ray spectra were recorded with a convex-crystal spectrograph and with a 22-channel PIN-diode spectrometer. Line and continuum spectra indicated temperatures of 36589 eV. Total x-ray irradiances in the energy range 0.7–20 keV showed strong peaking as a function of atomic number with a maximum conversion efficiency of 9.6% relative to the incident laser energy. An indication of enhanced N-shell x-ray emission near U is reported here for the first time.
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