Abstract
Z-pinches have a long history within the experience of fusion research. Their simplicity made them a natural starting point for researchers in the early days of fusion research, and even Tokamaks can trace their ancestry to schemes conceived to stabilize Z-pinches. This paper will concentrate on recent work on linear Z-pinches operating at high density. This is an area which has been pursued at a small level-of-effort by a number of groups over the years. While the state of the art is far from a promising working reactor, innovative solutions to classic Z-pinch problems continue to be developed.
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Scudder, D., Shlachter, J. (1997). Dense Z-Pinches for Fusion. In: Panarella, E. (eds) Current Trends in International Fusion Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5867-5_25
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