Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia

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 80-TW “Z” pulsed power facility at Sandia National Laboratories is the largest pulsed power device in the world today. Z discharges 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. Considerable progress has been made over the past 15 years in the use of pulsed power as a precision scientific tool. This paper reviews developments at Sandia in inertial confinement fusion, dynamic materials science, x-ray radiation science, and pulsed power engineering, with an emphasis on progress since a previous review of research on Z in Physics of Plasmas in 2005.

H. L. Hanshaw | N. W. Moore | G. Loisel | M. Desjarlais | M. Glinsky | R. Mcbride | D. Bliss | S. Hansen | C. Jennings | S. Slutz | D. Rovang | P. Knapp | P. Schmit | T. Awe | M. Hess | R. Lemke | D. Dolan | D. Lamppa | G. Chandler | C. Ruiz | A. Maurer | G. Robertson | M. Cuneo | D. Sinars | M. Gomez | K. Peterson | A. Sefkow | E. Harding | A. Harvey-Thompson | J. Porter | G. Rochau | M. Savage | I. Smith | W. Stygar | M. Herrmann | O. Johns | J. Giuliani | M. Mazarakis | E. Yu | M. Martin | A. Edens | G. Leifeste | M. Knudson | A. Owen | J. Mckenney | M. A. Sweeney | M. Matzen | Q. Looker | M. Johnston | C. Aragón | R. Clay | L. Shulenburger | J. Townsend | P. Rambo | K. Cochrane | T. Haill | K. Baker | T. Gardiner | S. Lewis | O. Hurricane | M. Schollmeier | T. Nagayama | R. Leeper | P. Springer | G. Grim | M. Edwards | J. Lash | A. Baczewski | T. Ao | J. Wise | N. Moore | T. Mattsson | J. Boerner | J. Hammer | E. Field | C. Speas | J. Kellogg | J. Schwarz | M. Kimmel | M. Geissel | J. Shores | D. Armstrong | J. Bailey | R. Campbell | C. Coverdale | J. Davis | B. Jones | E. Weinbrecht | D. Headley | M. Jones | D. Flicker | R. J. Kamm | A. J. López | P. Christenson | G. R. Mckee | D. Ampleford | J. Benage | G. Shipley | T. Pointon | E. Evstatiev | A. Dasgupta | K. Beckwith | P. Jones | M. Mangan | R. Magyar | S. Root | H. T. Barclay | C. Bourdon | J. Fein | W. Reinhart | C. Highstrete | M. Mitchell | D. Seidel | M. Kiefer | D. E. Ruiz | J. Custer | C. Alexander | J. Apruzese | K. Austin | C. Ball | S. Beatty | K. Bell | N. Bennett | K. Blaha | B. Branch | J. Brown | E. Campbell | D. Chacon | K. Chandler | M. Christison | E. Christner | A. Colombo | B. Cook | J. Douglass | G. Dunham | S. Duwal | B. Farfan | J. Fisher | T. Flanagan | M. Furnish | B. Galloway | P. Gard | T. Gomez | K. Hahn | N. Hamlin | B. Hutsel | D. Johnson | P. Kalita | A. Kreft | G. Laity | P. Lake | W. Langston | K. LeChien | J. Leckbee | W. Lewis | D. Lucero | S. Maclaren | H. McLean | C. A. McCoy | A. Miles | J. Mills | C. Myers | G. Natoni | S. Patel | A. Porwitzky | S. Radovich | K. Raman | D. Rose | D. Sandoval | M. Sceiford | M. Schaeuble | C. Seagle | S. Simpson | P. Specht | M. Speir | D. Spencer | A. Steiner | B. Stoltzfus | J. Ward Thornhill | J. Torres | C. Tyler | R. Vesey | P. Wakeland | T. Webb | M. Weis | D. Welch | M. Wu | D. Yager-Elorriaga | A. Yu | G. Mckee | William E. Lewis | H. Hanshaw

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