B. G. Zhukov, R. O. Kurakin, V. A. Sakharov, S. V. Bobashev, S. A. Ponyaev, B. I. Reznikov, S. I. Rozov, “A compact railgun accelerator for millimeter-sized dielectric solid armatures”, Pisma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2013, Volume 39, Issue 12,Pages <nobr>63

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A compact railgun accelerator for millimeter-sized dielectric solid armatures

B. G. Zhukov, R. O. Kurakin, V. A. Sakharov, S. V. Bobashev, S. A. Ponyaev, B. I. Reznikov, S. I. Rozov

Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg

Abstract: Millimeter-sized dielectric solid armatures have been accelerated in a compact railgun system. It is shown that application of an external pulsed magnetic field can solve the problem of catastrophic erosion of electrodes at the initial stage and accelerate small armatures up to a velocity of about 6 km/s.

Received: 28.02.2013