Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) has existed as a field of study since the 1970s, but the field
was born out of the Cold War. In the decades since the 1960s, pioneering research …

Pulsed power accelerators compress electrical energy in space and time to provide versatile
experimental platforms for high energy density and inertial confinement fusion science. The …

This Letter presents results from the first fully integrated experiments testing the magnetized
liner inertial fusion concept [SA Slutz, Phys. Plasmas 17, 056303 (2010)], in which a cylinder …

We present experimental results from the first systematic study of performance scaling with
drive parameters for a magnetoinertial fusion concept. In magnetized liner inertial fusion …

We present an overview of the magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) concept Magnetized Liner
Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) pursued at Sandia National Laboratories and review some of the …

Quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) theory for finite temperature plasmas is consistently derived
in the framework of the local density approximation of the free energy with first order density …

The magnetized liner inertial fusion concept has been presented as a path toward obtaining
substantial thermonuclear fusion yields using the Z accelerator [SA Slutz et al., Phys …

Magnetizing the fuel in inertial confinement fusion relaxes ignition requirements by reducing
thermal conductivity and changing the physics of burn product confinement. Diagnosing the …

Fisher and collaborators at the University of California, Irvine, invented the gas puff Z-pinch
in the late 1970s using a 200-kA generator. The implementation of gas puffs as a copious …

Novel experimental data are reported that reveal helical instability formation on imploding z-
pinch liners that are premagnetized with an axial field. Such instabilities differ dramatically …