Pavel Vrba1, Miroslava Vrbova2, Milan Kalal2, Alexandr Janacarek2, Anton Fojtik2
1Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, 3 Za Slovankou Str., 182 21 Prague 8, Czech Republic,
2Czech Technical University in Prague, FNSPE, 7 Brehova Str., 115 19 Prague 1, Czech Republic
An analysis of a Z-pinch in a capillary discharge is presented. It is supposed that the capillary is filled with a material ablated from the wall using a subnanosecond laser pulse of an energy of several tens of milijoules. The optimum initial atom density N0 has been found.