John L. Porter

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a 60 TW/5 MJ electrical accelerator located at Sandia National Laboratories to implode tungsten wire-array Z pinches, which achieved an x-ray power of ∼200 TW and an xray energy of nearly 2 MJ.

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: In this article, an accelerator architecture that can serve as the basis of the design of petawatt-class $z$-pinch drivers is presented. But it does not include intermediate store transmission lines, multimegavolt gas switches, or a laser trigger system.

TL;DR: Cuneo et al. as discussed by the authors showed that very late acceleration is not a universal aspect of wire array implosions and varied the ablation period between 46% +/-2% and 71%+/-3% of the stagnation time.