The dense plasma focus: A versatile dense pinch for diverse applications

M Krishnan - IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dense plasma focus (DPF) is a Z-pinch that has been studied for 50 years. Within ten
years of its discovery by Fillipov and Fillipova in Russia and Mather in the USA, this dense …

New trends and future perspectives on plasma focus research

L Soto - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper includes a brief overview of the contributions and results of several groups
working in plasma focus (PF) devices around the world in the last few years. In section 2 a …

Neutron emission from a fast plasma focus of 400 joules

P Silva, J Moreno, L Soto, L Birstein, RE Mayer… - Applied physics …, 2003 - pubs.aip.org
The neutron emission from a small and fast plasma focus operating in deuterium is
presented. The system operates at low energy in the hundred of joules range (880 nF …

Demonstration of neutron production in a table-top pinch plasma focus device operating at only tens of joules

L Soto, P Silva, J Moreno, M Zambra… - Journal of Physics D …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Neutron emission from a deuterium plasma pinch generated in a very small plasma focus (6
mm anode diameter) operating at only tens of joules is presented. A maximum current of 50 …

Studies on scalability and scaling laws for the plasma focus: Similarities and differences in devices from 1 MJ to 0.1 J

L Soto, C Pavez, A Tarifeno, J Moreno… - … Sources Science and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A comprehensive analysis of scaling laws for plasma focus devices producing neutrons is
presented. Similarities and differences in plasma focus devices working with stored energies …

Research with plasma foci in countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America

AE Dubinov, EI Fomicheva, LA Senilov - Reviews of Modern Plasma …, 2020 - Springer
This paper considers the modern level of technique, research, and application of “plasma
focus” facilities in the countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. A description of the …

Nanofocus: an ultra-miniature dense pinch plasma focus device with submillimetric anode operating at 0.1 J

L Soto, C Pavez, J Moreno, M Barbaglia… - … Sources Science and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
As a method for investigating the minimum energy to produce a pinch plasma focus (PF)
discharge, an ultra-miniature device for pinch discharges has been designed, constructed …

Research on pinch plasma focus devices of hundred of kilojoules to tens of joules

L Soto, P Silva, J Moreno, G Silvester… - Brazilian journal of …, 2004 - SciELO Brasil
At present the Plasma Physics and Plasma Technology Group of the Comisión Chilena de
Energía Nuclear (CCHEN) has the experimental facilities in order to study fast dense …

New evidence about the nature of plasma filaments in plasma accelerators of type plasma-focus

C Pavez, M Zorondo, J Pedreros… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, new evidence and information about both the origin and evolution of filamentary
structures observed in the current sheath of a small plasma focus (PF) discharge are …

A Monte Carlo formulation of the Bogolubov theory

A Sinatra, Y Castin, C Lobo - Journal of Modern Optics, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
We propose an efficient stochastic method to implement numerically the Bogolubov
approach to study finite-temperature Bose-Einstein condensates. Our method is based on …