Application of a collisinal-radiative model for the analysis of K-shell line spectra emitted by Z-pinch plasma

Abstract

In this paper, the principle of the collisional-radiative model for the estimation of plasma parameters from the ratios of K-shell spectral lines was introduced. The structure of a computer program, ZSPEC, developed for the analysis of K-shell line spectra emitted by Z-pinch plasma based on the collisioanl-radiative model was described in detail. The calculation for neon plasma were presented, including the number fractions of major ionization stages at different electron temperature and the contours of K-shell line ratios in the plane defined by electron density and electron temperature. ZSPEC had been used to analyze the measured results of neon gas-puff Z-pinch experiment performed on Yang accelerator. By comparing the K-shell line ratios of neon plasma obtained by an elliptical crystal spectrometer with the results calculated by ZSPEC, the time and space averaged electron temperature and electron density of the K-shell plasma for the shot with 540 kA peaking current were determined to be 240 eV and 1.0×1019 cm-3, respectively.