Ian C. Smith

TL;DR: This Letter presents results from the first fully integrated experiments testing the magnetized liner inertial fusion concept, indicating significant fuel magnetization given that the estimated radial areal density of the plasma is only 2 mg = cm(2).

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 magnetized liners inertial fusion (MagLIF) concept was introduced by Slutz and Vesey as mentioned in this paper, which is in the class of magneto-inertial fusion targets.

TL;DR: The 80-TW "Z" pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories as discussed by the authors is the largest pulsed-power device in the world today, and it can discharge up to 22'MJ of energy stored in its capacitor banks into a current pulse that rises in 100'ns and peaks at a current as high as 30 MA in low-inductance cylindrical targets.

TL;DR: The first controlled experiments measuring the growth of the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in fast Z-pinch plasmas are reported, and comparisons with numerical radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulations show remarkably good agreement down to 50 μm wavelengths.