MULTICHANNEL CALORIMETERS FOR MEASUREMENT OF FLOWS OF X-RAY RADIATION IN THE RANGE FROM 10 UP TO 200 keV

Valentin P. Vinogradov

RRC "Kurchatov Institute", 1 Kurchatov Sq., Moscow, 123182, Russia


An 8-channel calorimeter was developed and applied to the Plasma Focus facility (PF) with flat geometry of electrodes (Filippov type) for the measurements of a hard X-ray (HXR) radiation yield and its spectral distribution. The calorimeter measures the time-integrated HXR flux for one shot of the PF facility without any additional calibrations. The sensitivity ~10-4 J/cm2 was achieved.