Magnetic compression

Starting in the late 1980s, picosecond and sub-picosecond electron pulses have been available for the experiments through implementation of the magnetic compression technique. A typical chicane -type system used at the Nuclear Professional School, University of Tokyo is presented in Fig. 2 An electron pulse with a duration of seven picoseconds is generated by an S-band linac and compressed down to less than two picoseconds by the chicane. 

Fig. 2. Chicane-type magnetic compression of electron beam pulse duration. (Reproduced with permission from Ref 38.)...

Both the chicane and alpha magnet compression schemes are achromatic, that is to say that the exit path is the same for all particle energies. Non-achromatic... 

The magnetic compression of E-rings by a factor of 3 with accompanying increase in electron energy and ring lifetime. 

A third exponent y, usually called the susceptibility exponent from its application to the magnetic susceptibility x in magnetic systems, governs what m pure-fluid systems is the isothennal compressibility k, and what in mixtures is the osmotic compressibility, and detennines how fast these quantities diverge as the critical point is approached (i.e. as > 1). 

Restraining a gaseous plasma from expanding and compressing is also a form of plasma modification. Two reasons for plasma confinement are maintenance of the plasma and exclusion of contaminants. Plasmas may be confined by surrounding material, eg, the technique of wall confinement (23). A second approach to confinement involves the use of magnetic fields. The third class of confinement schemes depends on the inertial tendency of ions and associated electrons to restrain a plasma explosion for a brief but usehil length of time, ie, forces active over finite times are required to produce outward particle velocities. This inertial confinement is usually, but not necessarily, preceded by inward plasma motion and compression. 

High temperature is an important requirement for the attainment of fusion reactions in a plasma. The conditions necessary for extracting as much energy from the plasma as went into it is the Lawson criterion, which states that the product of the ion density and the confinement or reaction time must exceed 10 s/cm in the most favorable cases (173). If the coUisions are sufficiently violent, the Lawson criterion specifies how many of them must occur to break even. Conventional magnetic confinement involves fields of as much as 10 T (10 G) with large (1 m ) plasmas of low densities (<10 particles/cm ) and volumes and reaction times of about 1 s. If the magnetic flux can be compressed to values above 100 T (10 G), then a few cm ... 

In addition to chemical analysis a number of physical and mechanical properties are employed to determine cemented carbide quaUty. Standard test methods employed by the iadustry for abrasive wear resistance, apparent grain size, apparent porosity, coercive force, compressive strength, density, fracture toughness, hardness, linear thermal expansion, magnetic permeabiUty, microstmcture, Poisson s ratio, transverse mpture strength, and Young s modulus are set forth by ASTM/ANSI and the ISO. 

In shock-compression science the scientific interest is not so much in the study of waves themselves but in the use of the waves as a means to probe solid materials. As inertial responses to the loading, the waves contain detailed information describing the mechanical, physical, and chemical properties and processes in the unusual states encountered. Physical and chemical changes may be probed further with optical, electrical, or magnetic measurements, but the behaviors are intimately intertwined with the mechanical aspects of the waves. 

Given the advanced state of wave-profile detectors, it seems safe to recognize that the descriptions given by such an apparatus provide a necessary, but overly restricted, picture. As is described in later chapters of this book, shock-compressed matter displays a far more complex face when probed with electrical, magnetic, or optical techniques and when chemical changes are considered. It appears that realistic descriptive pictures require probing matter with a full array of modern probes. The recovery experiment in which samples are preserved for post-shock analysis appears critical for the development of a more detailed defective solid scientific description. 

Fig. 5.11. The study of shock compressibility of pressure-sensitive magnetic alloys was carried out with the quartz gauge impact technique. Loading was either with the specimen material or a quartz gauge. Resulting stress pulses were recorded with a quartz gauge (after Graham et al. [67G01]).

Fig. 5.13. The stress-volume relations of fee and bee alloys show the strong compressibility anomaly in the fee phase below 25 kbar (2.5 GPa) associated with the magnetic interactions. Above 25 kbar, the fee alloy has a normal value for compressibility (after Graham et al. [67G01]).

To further clarify the role of magnetic effects on compressibility, a shock compression experiment was performed on an fee 28.5-at. % Ni sample whose initial temperature was raised to 130°C. As is shown in Table 5.1, the compressibility was found to decrease to a value consistent with the nonmagnetic compressibility. Thus, the sharp change in compressibility, the critical values for the transition, and the magnitudes of the compressibility under the various conditions give a clear demonstration that a second-order magnetic transition has been observed, and we will proceed with a quantitative analysis of the transition. 

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