Experiments with Multi-Wire Liners at Sarmat Facility

In the paper we report on creation of capacitive facility SarMAT, providing a current up to 2 MA in a load at rise time of ~1 mus. The facility is intended for laboratory development of technologies and methods used in experiments on current implosion of cylindrical liners, powered from magneto-cumulative energy source. A series of experiments with multi-wire liners both of classical and a number of original constructions, was held at the facility. Results of these experiments are presented in the paper.

I Introduction

Experiments held in RFNC-VNIIEF[1] on generation of a soft x-ray radiation at a current implosion of multi-wire liners, powered from helical magneto-cumulative generators, equipped with an exploded current opening switch, demonstrated operating efficiency and perspectives of the used scheme. At the same time a specificity of the exploded current formers and performance of explosive experiments in totality with transfer to the current pulses of tens megamperes using disk explosive generators [2], [3] stipulated the necessity of creation of the simulating laboratory facility. The main goal of its creation is operative performance of inexpensive experiments on development of diagnostic methods, used in the experiments and checking of ideas on liners stability improvement at high implosion times that are characteristic for the experiments with the exploded current sources.