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The temporal characteristics of X-ray emission from X-pinches have been studied experimentally on the XP facility (with a 100-ns current pulse duration and 470-kA current amplitude) at Cornell University. The experiments were performed with X-pinches made of Al, Ti, Mo, and W wires. Radiation in the photon energy range 1–10 keV was recorded using diamond and silicon photodiodes with a subnanosecond time resolution and X-ray streak cameras with a picosecond time resolution. It is shown that, for high-Z elements, the duration of the X-ray pulse in the short-wavelength part of the spectral range under study does not exceed 5–10 ps.
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