Research with plasma foci in countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

AE Dubinov, EI Fomicheva, LA Senilov - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2020 - Springer
This paper considers the modern level of technique, research, and application of “plasma
focus” facilities in the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A description of the …

Plasma focus as a possible x-ray source for radiography

S Hussain, M Shafiq, R Ahmad… - Plasma Sources …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
A study of x-ray emission from a low energy (1.8 kJ) plasma focus (PF) device powered by a
9 µF capacitor bank, charged at 20 kV and giving peak discharge current of about 175 kA by …

Study of neutron emission in a low-energy plasma focus with β-source-assisted breakdown

M Zakaullah, A Waheed, S Ahmad, S Zeb… - … Sources Science and …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
The influence of pre-ionization around the insulator sleeve of plasma focus, by a mesh-type
β-source 28 Ni 63 on neutron emission is investigated. The experiment is conducted on two …

Plasma focus as a high intensity flash X-ray source for biological radiography

S Hussain, S Ahmad, MZ Khan, M Zakaullah… - Journal of Fusion …, 2003 - Springer
A study on X-ray emission from a low energy (3.3 kJ) plasma focus (PF) device operated
with hydrogen is reported. X-ray are detected by using an X-ray detector consisting of three …

Numerical experiments in plasma focus operated in various gases

M Akel, S Lee, SH Saw - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We adapted the Lee Model code as a branch version RADPF5. 15K to gases of special
interest to us, namely, nitrogen and oxygen and applied numerical experiments specifically …

Numerical experiments on soft X-ray emission optimization of nitrogen plasma in 3 kJ plasma focus SY-1 using modified lee model

M Akel, S Al-Hawat, S Lee - Journal of fusion energy, 2009 - Springer
The X-ray emission properties of nitrogen plasmas are numerically investigated using
corona plasma equilibrium model. The X-ray emission intensities of nitrogen Ly α, Ly β and …

X-ray enhancement from a plasma focus by inserting lead at the anode tip

S Hussain, M Zakaullah, S Ali, SH Bhatti, A Waheed - Physics Letters A, 2003 - Elsevier
Study of X-ray emission from a low-energy (1.8 kJ) plasma focus device powered by a 9 μF
capacitor bank, charged at 20 kV and giving peak discharge current of about 175 kA by …

X-ray emission from tin (Sn) using the AECS PF-2 plasma focus device

M Akel, S Al-Hawat, M Ahmad, Y Ballul… - Radiation Physics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The low energy (2.8 kJ, 25 μF, 15 kV, 120 kA) AECS PF-2 Mather-type plasma focus
device operated with nitrogen filling gas is used to study of the high energetic electrons …

Enhanced and reproducible X-ray emission in a low-energy plasma focus

S Ahmad, M Sadiq, S Hussain, M Shafiq… - Europhysics …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of pre-ionization by a shunt resistor on X-ray emission performance from a low-
energy (2.7 kJ) plasma focus is investigated by employing time-resolved and time-integrated …

Pinch current and soft X-ray yield limitations by numerical experiments on nitrogen plasma focus

M Akel, S Al-Hawat, S Lee - Journal of fusion energy, 2010 - Springer
The modified version of the Lee model code RADPF5-15a is used to run numerical
experiments with nitrogen gas, for optimizing the nitrogen soft X-ray yield on PF-SY1. The …