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 …

We report on the dynamics of ultrafast heating in cryogenic hydrogen initiated by a≲ 300 fs,
92 eV free electron laser x-ray burst. The rise of the x-ray scattering amplitude from a second …

Angularly resolved X-ray scattering measurements from fs-laser heated hydrogen have
been used to determine the equilibration of electron and ion temperatures in the warm …

Gas-puff z-pinch implosions are characterized by the formation of a dense annular plasma
shell, the sheath, that is driven to the axis by magnetic forces and therefore subject to the …

Compression of turbulent plasma can amplify the turbulent kinetic energy, if the compression
is fast compared to the viscous dissipation time of the turbulent eddies. A sudden viscous …

We present here the detailed measurements of radial distribution of the magnetic field in a
gas-puff z-pinch plasma at the final stages of the implosion phase and at stagnation. While …

Detailed spectroscopic diagnostics of the stagnating plasma in two disparate z pinches
allow, for the first time, the examination of the plasma properties within a 1D shock wave …

The ion kinetic energy in a stagnating plasma was previously determined by Kroupp et
al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 105001 (2011) PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett …

We report on measurements, made for the first time for an imploding plasma at its
stagnation, of the magnetic field spatial distribution. Utilized for the measurements is a …

The electron plasma wave feature (EPW) in the time-resolved Thomson scattering spectrum
is used to obtain the local electron density in imploding high energy density gas-puff z-pinch …