Developing a new high-power flash X-ray apparatus with harmonized magnetic and electrical fields

This work presents the design and characteristics of the 700-kilovolt pulsed X-ray apparatus, based on a principally new electro-physical structure. The main idea of this structure is that Blumlein pulse-forming system (transmission line, PFL), the primary and secondary circuit inductances and the capacitance of the secondary circuit of the Tesla transformer, running in the first half-wave occupy the same volume in space and do not impede each other. This kind of circuit design and the packing density as related to the pulse output dose is unrivalled throughout the world. The dependences of dose on the forming line voltage, and the flash duration on the different apparatus construction are measured.