Pulsed power accelerators compress electrical energy in space and time to provide versatile
experimental platforms for high energy density and inertial confinement fusion science. The …

Pulsed power generators create high-energy-density conditions by rapidly delivering an
immense pulse of electrical current to a compact imploding load. Accurately measuring the …

Recent studies of power flow and particle transport in multi-MA pulsed-power accelerators
demonstrate that electrode plasmas may reduce accelerator efficiency by shunting current …

Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is a magneto-inertial-fusion (MIF) concept, which is
presently being studied on the Z pulsed power facility. The MagLIF platform has achieved …

Kinetic simulations of Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine are conducted to understand
particle transport in the highly magnetized environment of a multi-MA accelerator. Joule …

Using the analogy between hydrodynamic and electrical current flow, we study how
electrical current density j redistributes and amplifies due to two commonly encountered …

Hybrid-implicit particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms permit the simulation of complex problems
involving both kinetic and fluid plasma regimes over large spatial and temporal scales. Fluid …

Magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) is a magneto-inertial-fusion concept that is studied
on the 20-MA, 100-ns rise time Z Pulsed Power Facility at Sandia National Laboratories …

A study on the neutron production from single and double gas puff Z-pinches on the
CESZAR linear transformer driver with∼ 0.45 MA current and 170 ns rise time is presented …

Magnetically insulated transmission lines (MITLs) are used to deliver tens of MA to a Z-pinch
load. The MITLs suffer current losses due to contaminant plasma located in the anode …