M. E. Cuneo

TL;DR: Lindemuth et al. as discussed by the authors showed that significant fusion yields can be obtained by pulsed-power-driven implosions of cylindrical metal liners onto magnetized (>10T) and preheated (100-500 eV) deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel.

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: In this article, a hybrid particle-in-cell (HPC) code is used to simulate the laser-plasmas interaction and its effect on the electron production and transport, as well as the distributed acceleration and spatial distribution.

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.