Design and Fabrication of Compact, Portable X-Pinch Driver Based on 2 LTD Bricks at the Idaho Accelerator Center

The compact and portable $x$-pinch driver able to supply of about 200-kA peak current with about 150-ns rise time was proposed recently\footnote{R.V. Shapovalov, R.B. Spielman, W. Beezhold, ``Design and Projected Performance of a Compact, Portable Plasma-Radiation-Source Generator at the Idaho Accelerator Center,'' abstract submitted to ICOPS/BEAMS, Washington DC (2014).} and currently under fabrication at the Idaho Accelerator Center. This driver will be able to produce a very unique $x$-ray radiation source, which could be used in many applications in physics,\footnote{S. A. Pikuz et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. \textbf{68}, 740 (1997).}$^,$\footnote{T. A. Shelkovenko et al., Rev. Sci. Instrum. \textbf{70}, 667 (1999).}$^,$\footnote{S. A. Pikuz et al., Phys. Plasmas \textbf{6}, 4272 (1999).} biology,\footnote{B. M. Song et al., Nuclear Science Symposium Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA 2002, p. 868.} and radiography.\footnote{F. N. Beg et al., Appl. Phys. Let. \textbf{89}, 101502 (2006).} In this work we present the short-circuit test results of our compact and portable x-pinch driver.