EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A POWERFUL ENERGY FLOW EFFECT ON MATERIALS IN PF-1000 INSTALLATION

Michal Borowiecki1, Paola De Chiara4, Aleksandr V. Dubrovsky2, Elena V. Dyomina3, Vladimir A. Gribkov2, Lev I. Ivanov3, Sergej A. Maslyaev3, Franco Mezzetti4, Ryszard Miklaszewski1, Valerij N. Pimenov3, Linda Pizzo4, Marek Scholz1, Adam Szydlowski5, Yulo E. Ugaste6, Igor V. Volobuev2

1Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, 23 Hery Str., 00-908 Warsaw, Poland,
2P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 53 Leninsky pr., 117924 Moscow, Russia,
3A.A. Baikov Institute of Metallurgy and Material Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, 49 Leninsky pr., 117334 Moscow, Russia,
4Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Universita di Ferrara and Instituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia (INFM), 12 Via Paradiso, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy,
5The Andrzej Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies, 05-400 Otwock/Swierk, Poland,
6Pedagogical University of Tallinn, 25 Narva Road, 10120 Tallinn, Estonia


The report describes some of the results obtained in an experimental study of the impact of a powerful plasma stream and a fast ion beam generated in a PF-1000 device on different materials perspective for the use in radiation loaded parts of pulsed plasma installations. Investigations were done during and after the interaction processes. It is shown that in case of irradiation of samples only by high power flux density plasma streams the effect of detachment still preserved. At the same time a low power flux density high-energy ion beam plays an important role in the process of saturation of the irradiated material by hydrogen.