M. Keith Matzen

TL;DR: Pereira et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that fast Z-pinch implosions can efficiently convert the stored electrical energy in a pulsed-power accelerator into x rays.

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: Sandia is actively pursuing the development of new accelerators based on the new technology of the Linear Transformer Driver (LTD), and is preparing a new LTD laboratory to house the 10, 1-MA, 100-kV LTD cavities recently constructed and received from the HCEI, Tomsk, Russia.

TL;DR: In this paper, a fast z-pinch implosion can convert more than 10% of the stored electrical energy in a pulsed-power accelerator into X-rays, which can be used for ICF-relevant ablator physics experiments and offer the potential for performing many basic physics and fusion-relevant experiments.

TL;DR: In this article, the initiation, implosion dynamics, and radiation yield of tungsten wire arrays as a function of the wire number were studied for the Z-pinch driven Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) program.