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 …

The Z-pinch configuration offers the promise of a compact fusion device owing to its simple
geometry, unity beta, and absence of external magnetic field coils. Increasing the axial …

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 …

We show that ultradense Z pinches with nanoscale dimensions can be generated by
irradiating aligned nanowires with femtosecond laser pulses of relativistic intensity. Using …

The Z Facility at Sandia National Laboratories [Matzen et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 055503
(2005)] provides MJ-class x-ray sources that can emit powers> 0.3 PW. This capability …

A deuterium gas-puff load imploded by a multi-MA current driver from a large initial diameter
could be a powerful source of fusion neutrons, a plasma neutron source (PNS). Unlike the …

This paper discusses the importance of fusion propulsion for interplanetary space travel,
illustrates why the magnetoinertial fusion parameter space may facilitate the most rapid …

Experiments on the Z accelerator with deuterium gas-puff implosions have produced up to
3.7× 10 13 (±20%) neutrons at 2.34 MeV (±0.10 MeV)⁠. Although the mechanism for …