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The Effect of Neutral Atoms on Capillary Discharge Z-pinch

Ron A. Nemirovsky, Amit Ben-Kish, Moshe Shuker, Amiram Ron

physics.plasm-pharXiv:physics/9903026

Abstract

We study the effect of neutral atoms on the dynamics of a capillary discharge Z-pinch, in a regime for which a large soft-x-ray amplification has been demonstrated. We extended the commonly used one-fluid magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) model by separating out the neutral atoms as a second fluid. Numerical calculations using this extended model yield new predictions for the dynamics of the pinch collapse, and better agreement with known measured data.

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