R. J. Leeper

TL;DR: In this paper, a low-Z capsule filled with deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel via laser indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion and demonstrate fusion ignition and propagating thermonuclear burn with a net energy gain of ∼5-10 (fusion yield/input laser energy).

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: Boehly et al. as mentioned in this paper used CR-39 nuclear track detectors in conjunction with magnets and/or special ranging filters for high-resolution spectrometry of charged particles from inertial confinement-fusion (ICF) experiments.

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: The National Ignition Campaign includes low yield implosions with dudded fuel layers to study and optimize the hydrodynamic assembly of the fuel in a diagnostics rich environment as mentioned in this paper.