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COBRA
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The COBRA accelerator at Cornell is being rebuilt
so that it will be capable of delivering a 1 MA, 100 ns current pulse to a low impedance
load. The Center experimental plan includes investigating a large variety of wire-array
configurations that imply the need to carry out a very large number of experiments at ~1MA
peak current or more for the various applications of wire-array z-pinches. The load region
of the accelerator will be designed to enable isentropic compression (ICE) experiments to
be carried out at the 100 kbar level as well. The enthusiastic interest already expressed
by SNLA and LLNL scientists for collaborating with us on ICE experiments on COBRA suggests
that 25% of the rebuilt accelerator time should be reserved for them. As such, the COBRA
system is being rebuilt to be a “user facility” and is expected to be operational on March 4, 2004.
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