Experimental studies of discharges in the plasma focus facility with neon filling and respective numerical simulations employing the radiative Lee code are reported. The pinch currents exceed the Pease-Braginskii current, which indicates that radiative losses are larger than heating and that contraction of the formed plasma should occur. Both of these effects were indeed observed. Parallel numerical simulations were crucial for the identifi cation of such an effect.
The Cu plasmas were produced by a ruby laser (~ 5 J, 694.3 nm, ~ 18 ns, ~140 GWcm^-2). Time-resolved spectra of the plasmas were observed in the region of 8-24 nm. The electron temperature was estimated to be about 40 eV. A small depth of the crater (~ 3 [my]m) and the surrounding ripples were observed at the Cu target surface. The trace of deposited plasma was explained as the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. Plasma was transparent to the laser beam.
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