The Z-pinch, perhaps the oldest subject in plasma physics, has achieved a remarkable
renaissance in recent years, following a few decades of neglect due to its basically unstable …

Fisher and collaborators at the University of California, Irvine, invented the gas puff Z-pinch
in the late 1970s using a 200-kA generator. The implementation of gas puffs as a copious …

This Letter presents results from the first fully integrated experiments testing the magnetized
liner inertial fusion concept [SA Slutz, Phys. Plasmas 17, 056303 (2010)], in which a cylinder …

Zap Energy is a private fusion energy company developing the sheared-flow-stabilized
(SFS) Z-pinch concept for commercial energy production. Spun out from the University of …

The magnetized liner inertial fusion concept [SA Slutz et al., Phys. Plasmas 17, 056303
(2010)] utilizes a magnetic field and laser heating to relax the pressure requirements of …

Significant broadening of the energy spectrum of the products of nuclear reactions occurs in
fusion plasmas. We provide a method for calculating the shape of this production spectrum …

The sheared-flow stabilized Z pinch has demonstrated long-lived plasmas with fusion-
relevant parameters. We present the first experimental results demonstrating sustained …

Experiments on the Z accelerator with deuterium gas puff implosions have produced up to
3.9× 10 13 (±20%) neutrons at 2.34 MeV (±0.10 MeV)⁠. Experimentally, the mechanism for …

The sheared-flow-stabilized Z pinch concept has been studied extensively and is able to
produce fusion-relevant plasma parameters along with neutron production over several …

Magneto-inertial fusion concepts, such as the magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF)
platform [MR Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 155003 (2014)], constitute an alternative …