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asymmetric_implosionWow, great result on the high energy x-rays. I agree that quality is important but quantity is a big deal as well. The result of 5 shots of repeatability was nice but it’s a far cry from what I would call statistically significant. A hundred or thousand shots would be far better. I know this requires a great deal of engineering on the pulse power and other components but that is the long term goal right; operating at ~10 Hz all the time. It sounds like the physics is being sorted out nicely so when is the engineering of the pulse power going to begin?
One questions: where are the x-rays coming from? Are they generated in the pinch itself via brems or are they coming from the anode brems? I thought LPP had a diagnostic for hard x-ray imaging develop by Dr. Murali. I’d love to see the pics if they exist. I find the HXR images more telling than visible images.