Temporal correlations between hard X-ray and neutron pulses in the PACO plasma focus device

摘要

An experimental study on the fluctuations in the instants of time of the peaks in the voltage, current time derivative, X-rays and neutron signals during a 150 shots series in a 2 kJ Plasma Focus device is presented. The results show a good correlation between the time of the voltage peak and that of X-ray emission, in agreement with the picture of the formation of an electron beam accelerated by this voltage; while the time differences between X-rays and neutron maximum emission are difficult to interpret in terms of a common origin.