Experimental investigations of REB properties in plasma focus and the experiments on combined laser +REB-plasma interaction

A number of the power pinching discharges has been developed during the last 20 years: Z-pinch, plasma focus, vacuum spark and s on. The motivation for developing the electromagnetic implosion technique is to produce a hot dense plasma to achieve the fusion conditions. The plasma parameters N
e
≳ 10
¹⁹
cm
⁻³
, T
e
∼ 1–10 keV as we as high level of neutron radiation (up to 10
¹²
neutrons per shot it plasma focus) have been reached already. At the same time the power full streams of the accelerated electrons and ions formed in a plasma were found to appear at the current rupture stage. The energy of these particles is several times more than the maximal bank voltage Thus, one can consider such a discharge as some kind of electron on ion accelerator.