Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

This review addresses field-reversed configurations (FRCs), which are compact-toroidal
magnetic systems with little or no toroidal field and very high β (ratio of plasma pressure to …

The Lawson criterion is a key concept in the pursuit of fusion energy, relating the fuel density
n, pulse duration τ or energy confinement time τ E, and fuel temperature T to the energy gain …

The radial convergence required to reach fusion conditions is considerably higher for
cylindrical than for spherical implosions since the volume is proportional to r 2 versus r 3⁠ …

Magnetized inertial fusion (MIF) could substantially ease the difficulty of reaching plasma
conditions required for significant fusion yields, but it has been widely accepted that the gain …

Enhancement of the ion temperature and fusion yield has been observed in magnetized
laser-driven inertial confinement fusion implosions on the OMEGA Laser Facility. A spherical …

The magnetized liner inertial fusion concept has been presented as a path toward obtaining
substantial thermonuclear fusion yields using the Z accelerator [SA Slutz et al., Phys …

Experiments applying laser-driven magnetic-flux compression to inertial confinement fusion
(ICF) targets to enhance the implosion performance are described. Spherical plastic (CH) …

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

Spherically imploding plasma liners formed by merging an array of high Mach number
plasma jets are a proposed standoff driver for magnetoinertial fusion (MIF). This paper gives …