The paper presents a control and protective system for the plasma focus installation IPF-4/5A of 1 MA plasma current. All the fusion installation sequences are governed by strict hard and soft interlocking using in parallel two control and protective systems: one based on PC-control methods and other based on classical control techniques.

Ion populations and emitted spectrum of argon plasma have been calculated using the POPULATE and SPECTRA codes of the RATION suite at different conditions (electron temperatures, electron densities, ion densities, plasma size) for LTE and NLTE models. Expected argon plasma spectra at certain electron temperature range have been plotted. The suitable electron temperatures ranges for argon plasma...

We intend to carry out a series of plasma lens experiments at the Final Focus Test Beam facility at SLAC. These experiments will be the first to study the focusing of particle beams by plasma focusing devices in the parameter regime of interest for high energy colliders, and is expected to lead to plasma lens designs capable of unprecedented spot sizes. Plasma focusing of positron beams will be...