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 …

Resistive magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations are used to evaluate the influence of
three-dimensional inhomogeneities on x-ray power production in wire array Z-pinches. In …

We present observations for 20-MA wire-array z pinches of an extended wire ablation period
of 57%±3% of the stagnation time of the array and non-thin-shell implosion trajectories …

We have measured the x-ray power and energy radiated by a tungsten-wire-array z pinch as
a function of the peak pinch current and the width of the anode-cathode gap at the base of …

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 …

Over the last several years, rapid progress has been made evaluating the double-z-pinch
indirect-drive, inertial confinement fusion (ICF) high-yield target concept (Hammer et al 1999 …

The results of experiments on the study of plasma compression of nested wire arrays of
mixed composition and the generation of powerful pulses of soft x-ray radiation (SXR) …

An indirect drive configuration is proposed wherein multiple compact Z-pinch x-ray sources
surround a secondary hohlraum. Planar compact wire arrays allow reduced primary …

A modification of the wire array Z pinch, the conical wire array, has applications to the
understanding of wire array implosions and potentially to pulse shaping relevant to inertial …