Improvement of Projectile Velocity and Impact Rate on a Target by Two-Stage Plasma Accelerator
- 1 October 1988
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 27 (10A), L1986
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.27.l1986
Abstract
A new two-stage plasma accelerator was tested to conduct the hypervelocity acceleration of microprojectiles. The accelerator consisted of a gas gun as the first stage and a plasma accelerator as the second stage. It was confirmed that the two-stage operation performed well at any timing started by the laser trigger system. It was found that the velocity of projectiles was increased in the two-stage operation and that the velocity greatly depended on the position at the beginning of acceleration. The impact rate of projectiles on a target was also markedly increased.Keywords
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