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Paul Schmit
Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories
Publications - 46
Citations - 1459
Paul Schmit is an academic researcher from Sandia National Laboratories. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion & Inertial confinement fusion. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1065 citations. Previous affiliations of Paul Schmit include Princeton University.
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Experimental Demonstration of Fusion-Relevant Conditions in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion
Matthew R. Gomez,Stephen A. Slutz,Adam B Sefkow,Daniel Sinars,Kelly Hahn,Stephanie Hansen,Eric Harding,Patrick Knapp,Paul Schmit,Christopher Jennings,Thomas James Awe,M. Geissel,Dean C. Rovang,Gordon A. Chandler,Gary Wayne Cooper,Michael Edward Cuneo,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,O. Johns,Derek C. Lamppa,Matthew Martin,Ryan D. McBride,Kyle Peterson,John L. Porter,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Carlos L. Ruiz,Mark E. Savage,Ian C. Smith,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey +31 more
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).
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Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia
Daniel Sinars,M. A. Sweeney,C. S. Alexander,D. J. Ampleford,Tommy Ao,John P. Apruzese,C. Aragon,D. J. Armstrong,Kevin N. Austin,Thomas James Awe,Andrew Baczewski,James E. Bailey,Kevin Baker,C. R. Ball,H. T. Barclay,S. Beatty,Kris Beckwith,Kate Bell,J. F. Benage,Nichelle Bennett,Karen Blaha,David E. Bliss,J. J. Boerner,Christopher Jay Bourdon,B. A. Branch,Justin Brown,E.M. Campbell,R. B. Campbell,D. G. Chacon,Gordon A. Chandler,K. Chandler,P. J. Christenson,M. D. Christison,E. B. Christner,Raymond C. Clay,Kyle Robert Cochrane,Anthony P. Colombo,B. M. Cook,Christine Anne Coverdale,M. E. Cuneo,J. S. Custer,Arati Dasgupta,J.-P. Davis,Michael P. Desjarlais,Daniel H. Dolan,J. D. Douglass,G. S. Dunham,Sakun Duwal,Aaron Edens,M. J. Edwards,Evstati Evstatiev,Bernardo Farfan,J. R. Fein,Ella Suzanne Field,J. A. Fisher,Timothy McGuire Flanagan,Dawn G. Flicker,M. D. Furnish,Benjamin R. Galloway,P. Gard,T. A. Gardiner,Matthias Geissel,John Giuliani,Michael E. Glinsky,M. R. Gomez,T. Gomez,Gary Grim,Kelly Hahn,Thomas A. Haill,N. D. Hamlin,J. H. Hammer,Stephanie Hansen,H. L. Hanshaw,Eric Harding,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,D. Headley,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,C. Highstrete,Omar Hurricane,Brian Hutsel,Christopher Jennings,O. Johns,Drew Johnson,Mark D. Johnston,Brent Manley Jones,M. C. Jones,P. A. Jones,P. Kalita,R. J. Kamm,J. W. Kellogg,Mark L. Kiefer,Mark Kimmel,Patrick Knapp,Marcus D. Knudson,A. Kreft,George Laity,P. W. Lake,Derek C. Lamppa,W. L. Langston,J. S. Lash,K. R. LeChien,K. R. LeChien,Joshua J. Leckbee,R. J. Leeper,G. T. Leifeste,Raymond W. Lemke,William Lewis,S. A. Lewis,G. Loisel,Quinn Looker,A. J. Lopez,D. J. Lucero,Steve MacLaren,Rudolph J. Magyar,Michael A. Mangan,Matthew Martin,Thomas R. Mattsson,Maurice Keith Matzen,A. J. Maurer,Michael G. Mazarakis,Ryan D. McBride,Harry McLean,C. A. McCoy,G. R. McKee,John Lee McKenney,A. R. Miles,J. A. Mills,M. D. Mitchell,Nathan W. Moore,Clayton E. Myers,Taisuke Nagayama,G. Natoni,A. C. Owen,S. G. Patel,Kyle Peterson,Timothy D. Pointon,John L. Porter,Andrew Porwitzky,S. Radovich,Kumar Raman,Patrick K. Rambo,William D. Reinhart,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Seth Root,D. V. Rose,Dean C. Rovang,Carlos L. Ruiz,Daniel Ruiz,D. Sandoval,Mark E. Savage,M. E. Sceiford,M. A. Schaeuble,Paul Schmit,Marius Schollmeier,Jens Schwarz,Christopher T Seagle,Adam B Sefkow,David B. Seidel,G. A. Shipley,Jonathon Shores,Luke Shulenburger,Sean Simpson,S. A. Slutz,Ian C. Smith,C. S. Speas,P. E. Specht,M. J. Speir,D. Spencer,P. T. Springer,A. M. Steiner,Brian Stoltzfus,William A. Stygar,J. Ward Thornhill,Jose A. Torres,Joshua P. Townsend,C. Tyler,Roger Alan Vesey,P. E. Wakeland,Timothy J. Webb,E. A. Weinbrecht,M. R. Weis,Dale Welch,Jack LeRoy Wise,M. Wu,David Yager-Elorriaga,A. Yu,Edmund Yu +188 more
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.
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Understanding fuel magnetization and mix using secondary nuclear reactions in magneto-inertial fusion.
Paul Schmit,Patrick Knapp,Stephanie Hansen,Matthew R. Gomez,Kelly Hahn,Daniel Sinars,Kyle Peterson,S. A. Slutz,Adam B Sefkow,Thomas James Awe,Eric Harding,Christopher Jennings,Gordon A. Chandler,Gary Wayne Cooper,M. E. Cuneo,M. Geissel,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,O. Johns,Derek C. Lamppa,Matthew Martin,Ryan D. McBride,John L. Porter,G. K. Robertson,Gregory Rochau,Dean C. Rovang,Carlos L. Ruiz,Mark E. Savage,Ian C. Smith,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey +31 more
TL;DR: A method to diagnose fuel magnetization using the ratio of overall deuterium-tritium to deuterum-deuterium neutron yields is developed and is applied to recent MIF experiments, indicating that significant magnetic confinement of charged burn products was achieved and suggesting a relatively low-mix environment.
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Conceptual designs of two petawatt-class pulsed-power accelerators for high-energy-density-physics experiments
William A. Stygar,Thomas James Awe,James E. Bailey,Nichelle Bennett,E. W. Breden,E. M. Campbell,E. M. Campbell,R. E. Clark,R. A. Cooper,M. E. Cuneo,J. B. Ennis,D. L. Fehl,T. C. Genoni,Matthew R. Gomez,G. W. Greiser,F. R. Gruner,Mark Herrmann,Brian Hutsel,Christopher Jennings,D. O. Jobe,Brent Manley Jones,M. C. Jones,P. A. Jones,Patrick Knapp,J. S. Lash,K. R. LeChien,Joshua J. Leckbee,R. J. Leeper,S. A. Lewis,F. W. Long,D. J. Lucero,E. A. Madrid,Matthew Martin,Maurice Keith Matzen,Michael G. Mazarakis,Ryan D. McBride,G. R. McKee,C. L. Miller,J. K. Moore,C. B. Mostrom,T. D. Mulville,Kyle Peterson,John L. Porter,David Reisman,Gregory Rochau,G. E. Rochau,D. V. Rose,Dean C. Rovang,Mark E. Savage,M. E. Sceiford,Paul Schmit,R. F. Schneider,Jens Schwarz,Adam B Sefkow,D.B. Sinars,S. A. Slutz,R. B. Spielman,Brian Stoltzfus,Carsten Thoma,Roger Alan Vesey,P. E. Wakeland,Dale Welch,M. L. Wisher,J. R. Woodworth +63 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed conceptual designs of two petawatt-class pulsed-power accelerators: Z 300 and Z 800, which are based on an accelerator architecture that is founded on two concepts: single-stage electrical-pulse compression and impedance matching.
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Demonstration of thermonuclear conditions in magnetized liner inertial fusion experimentsa)
Matthew R. Gomez,Stephen A. Slutz,Adam B Sefkow,Kelly Hahn,Stephanie Hansen,Patrick Knapp,Paul Schmit,Carlos L. Ruiz,Daniel Sinars,Eric Harding,Christopher Jennings,Thomas James Awe,Matthias Geissel,Dean C. Rovang,Ian C. Smith,Gordon A. Chandler,Gary Wayne Cooper,Michael Edward Cuneo,A. J. Harvey-Thompson,Mark Herrmann,M. H. Hess,Derek C. Lamppa,Matthew Martin,Ryan D. McBride,Kyle Peterson,John L. Porter,Gregory Rochau,Mark E. Savage,Diana Grace Schroen,William A. Stygar,Roger Alan Vesey +30 more
TL;DR: The magnetized liner inertial fusion concept as discussed by the authors utilizes a magnetic field and laser heating to relax the pressure requirements of inertial confinement fusion, and the first experiments to test the concept [M. R. Gomez et al., Phys. Rev. 113, 155003 (2014)] were conducted utilizing the 19 MA, 100 ns Z machine, the 2.5