Plasma - Pulse - Acceleration Experiments
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This paper gives recent results of experiments with a coaxial Plasma-Pulse-Accelerator (PPA). Discharging a capacitor bank into the PPA more than 80 % of the stored energy could be transferred from the electrical circuit into the plasma. Accelerating masses of 10 g to velocities of 1020 m/s overall efficiencies of 22 % were achieved. A 3 g mass could be accelerated in the same PPA to 2000 m/s; the efficiency decreases in this case to 13 %. Some design aspects and main parameters influencing the energy conversion into the arcdischarge and questions of matching the power supply system to the acceleration process are discussed.
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