Neutron and soft X-ray emission from wire array Z-pinch imploding onto deuterated fiber

The implosion of a wire array Z-pinch onto a deuterated fiber was studied on S-300 device (4 MA, 700 kV, 100 ns; RRC Kurchatov Institute, Moscow). The peak power of soft X-rays exceeded 200 OW and the total emitted energy was 2÷8 kJ. The radiation was close to the radiation of the blackbody with the temperature of 40 eV. The neutron yield from the D-D reaction reached 2×10
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per shot. The mean energy of neutrons determined from time-of-flight analysis in the axial direction (downstream) was shifted from 2.45 MeV towards higher energies.