A study of charged particle beams emission from argon focus plasma

Abstract EN

The aim of this work is to study and investigate the emission of charged particle beams from a plasma focus region.

A plasma focus device employed in this work was a Mather-type (1) of storage energy in the range from 1 to 2.22kJ.

This device was energized by (30.84μF) capacitor bank charged in the range from (8 to 12kV ) giving a peak discharge current of 156.6KA with rise time » 3.5μSec.The discharge takes place in Argon gas and its pressure varied from 0.5 to 2torr.Charged particle beams included ion and electron beams emission from a plasma focus region and after the disruption of pinch column were detected by using a Faraday cup technique.

The correlation of ion and electron beams intensity, energy and density with gas pressure and charging voltage was detected experimentally.

The experimental results revealed, that the maximum values of ion beams and electron beams intensity was detected at Vch =12kV and P=2torr.