Chimpén Ruiz

TL;DR: The Z accelerator at Sandia National Laboratories delivers ∼20MA load currents to create high magnetic fields (>1000T) and high pressures (megabar to gigabar) in a z-pinch configuration, the magnetic pressure supersonically implodes a plasma created from a cylindrical wire array, which at stagnation typically generates a plasma with energy densities of about 10MJ∕cm3 and temperatures >1keV at 0.1% of solid density as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The implosion performance of cryogenically layered DT implosions, characterized by the experimental ignition threshold factor (ITFx), which is a function of dsr (or fuel ρR) and Y(n), has improved almost two orders of magnitude since the first shot in September, 2010.

TL;DR: In this paper, Coverdale et al. demonstrated that the hypothesis of a beam-target origin of the observed fusion neutrons implies a very high Z-pinch driver-to-fast-ions energy transfer efficiency, 5 to 10%, which would make a multi-MA deuterium Zpinch the most efficient light-ion ac...

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the deuterium gas puff implosion at the Z accelerator achieved electron temperatures of 2.2keV and ion densities of 2×1020cm−3 in agreement with the MHD calculations.

TL;DR: In the concept of dynamic hohlraum, an imploding Z pinch is optically thick to its own radiation as mentioned in this paper, and the radiation may be trapped inside the pinch by colliding an outer Z-pinch liner onto an inner liner.