Abstract
Experimental investigations of pinches on the refurbished Z (ZR) generator using Cu arrays have been initiated and more are planned for the near future. Significant X-ray emissions in the K-shell from moderately high atomic number plasmas such as Cu generate extreme interest. However, the production of these hard photons from high Z materials comes with a price. There is substantial loss of radiative yield due to stripping through many electrons present in high Z materials to reach to the H- or He-like ionization stages. Production of hard X-rays for materials with atomic number higher than Cu such as Kr is very difficult and theoretical predictions are even more uncertain. Previous experimental efforts using Cu as a plasma pinch load are encouraging and promote further investigations of this element on the refurbished Z machine for achieving photon energies higher than 5 keV and obtaining sufficient radiative yield. We will analyze the ionization dynamics and generate Cu spectrum using the temperature and density conditions obtained from 1-D non-LTE radiation hydrodynamics simulations of Cu wire array implosions on ZR. These results will be compared with K- and L-shell experimental spectrum of shot Z 1975. Theoretical K- and L-shell spectroscopy provides validation of atomic and plasma modeling when compared to available experimental data and also provides useful diagnostics for the plasma parameters. Our self-consistently generated non-LTE collisional-radiative model employs an extensive atomic level structure and data for all dominant atomic processes that are necessary to model accurately the pinch dynamics and the spectroscopic details of the emitted radiation.
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