Efficiency of conversion of heat flux into hard X-ray radiation
Rudakov L.I., Starostin A.N., Yakunin I.I., Kukushkin А.В., Lisitsa V.S.
The efficiency of the conversion of the heat flux into hard X-ray (HXR) radiation is analyzed, via time-dependent two-temperature one-dimensional non-LTE-radiation-hydrodynamic numerical modelling, for a heat-to-radiation flux converter linked to the edge of low atomic number hot Z-pinch. The domain of parameters in this scheme is found where about the same HXR yield can be achieved at those values of input energy which are lower, by the order of magnitude, than that in the conventional scheme of a radially imploding plasma. PACS: 52.25.Nr