Experimental study of current loss and plasma formation in the Z machine post-hole convolute von Gomez, M. R., Gilgenbach, R. M., Cuneo, M. E., Jennings, C. A., McBride, R. D., Waisman, E. M., Hutsel, B. T., Stygar, W. A., Rose, D. V., Maron, Y.

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Pulsed power accelerator for material physics experiments von Reisman, D. B., Stoltzfus, B. S., Stygar, W. A., Austin, K. N., Waisman, E. M., Hickman, R. J., Davis, J.-P., Haill, T. A., Knudson, M. D., Seagle, C. T., Brown, J. L., Goerz, D. A., Spielman, R. B., Goldlust, J. A., Cravey, W. R.

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Transmission-line-circuit model of an 85-TW, 25-MA pulsed-power accelerator von Hutsel, B. T., Corcoran, P. A., Cuneo, M. E., Gomez, M. R., Hess, M. H., Hinshelwood, D. D., Jennings, C. A., Laity, G. R., Lamppa, D. C., McBride, R. D., Moore, J. K., Myers, A., Rose, D. V., Slutz, S. A., Stygar, W. A., Waisman, E. M., Welch, D. R., Whitney, B. A.

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Numerical simulations of enhanced ion current losses in the inner magnetically insulated transmission line of the Z accelerator von Rose, D., Waisman, E. M., Desjarlais, M. P., Cuneo, M. E., Hutsel, B. T., Welch, D. R., Bennett, N., Laity, G. R.

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Pulsed-coil magnet systems for applying uniform 10-30 T fields to centimeter-scale targets on Sandia's Z facility von Rovang, D C, Lamppa, D C, Cuneo, M E, Owen, A C, McKenney, J, Johnson, D W, Radovich, S, Kaye, R J, McBride, R D, Alexander, C S, Awe, T J, Slutz, S A, Sefkow, A B, Haill, T A, Jones, P A, Argo, J W, Dalton, D G, Robertson, G K, Waisman, E M, Sinars, D B, Meissner, J, Milhous, M, Nguyen, D N, Mielke, C H

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The effect of gradients at stagnation on K-shell x-ray line emission in high-current Ar gas-puff implosions von Jones, B., Apruzese, J. P., Harvey-Thompson, A. J., Ampleford, D. J., Jennings, C. A., Hansen, S. B., Moore, N. W., Lamppa, D. C., Johnson, D., Jones, M. C., Waisman, E. M., Coverdale, C. A., Cuneo, M. E., Rochau, G. A., Giuliani, J. L., Thornhill, J. W., Ouart, N. D., Chong, Y. K., Velikovich, A. L., Dasgupta, A., Krishnan, M., Coleman, P. L.

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Optimization of current waveform tailoring for magnetically driven isentropic compression experiments von Waisman, E. M., Reisman, D. B., Stoltzfus, B. S., Stygar, W. A., Cuneo, M. E., Haill, T. A., Davis, J.-P., Brown, J. L., Seagle, C. T., Spielman, R. B.

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Suppression of the ablation phase in wire array Z pinches using a tailored current prepulse von Harvey-Thompson, A J, Lebedev, S V, Burdiak, G, Waisman, E M, Hall, G N, Suzuki-Vidal, F, Bland, S N, Chittenden, J P, De Grouchy, P, Khoory, E, Pickworth, L, Skidmore, J, Swadling, G

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Characterisation of the current switch mechanism in two-stage wire array Z-pinches von Burdiak, G. C., Lebedev, S. V., Harvey-Thompson, A. J., Hall, G. N., Swadling, G. F., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Khoory, E., Bland, S. N., Pickworth, L., de Grouchy, P., Skidmore, J., Suttle, L., Waisman, E. M.

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Progress in symmetric ICF capsule implosions and wire-array z-pinch source physics for double-pinch-driven hohlraums von Cuneo, M E, Vesey, R A, Bennett, G R, Sinars, D B, Stygar, W A, Waisman, E M, Porter, J L, Rambo, P K, Smith, I C, Lebedev, S V, Chittenden, J P, Bliss, D E, Nash, T J, Chandler, G A, Afeyan, B B, Yu, E P, Campbell, R B, Adams, R G, Hanson, D L, Mehlhorn, T A, Matzen, M K

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Voltage measurements at the vacuum post-hole convolute of the Z pulsed-power accelerator von Waisman, E. M., McBride, R. D., Cuneo, M. E., Wenger, D. F., Fowler, W. E., Johnson, W. A., Basilio, L. I., Coats, R. S., Jennings, C. A., Sinars, D. B., Vesey, R. A., Jones, B., Ampleford, D. J., Lemke, R. W., Martin, M. R., Schrafel, P. C., Lewis, S. A., Moore, J. K., Savage, M. E., Stygar, W. A.

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Direct experimental evidence for current-transfer mode operation of nested tungsten wire arrays at 16-19 MA von CUNEO, M. E, SINARS, D. B, BLISS, D. E, WAISMAN, E. M, PORTER, J. L, STYGAR, W. A, LEBEDEV, S. V, CHITTENDEN, J. P, SARKISOV, G. S, AFEYAN, B. B

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Circuit Model for Driving Three-Dimensional Resistive MHD Wire Array Z -Pinch Calculations von Jennings, Chris A, Chittenden, Jeremy P, Cuneo, Michael E, Stygar, W A, Ampleford, David J, Waisman, E M, Jones, M, Savage, M E, LeChien, K R, Wagoner, T C

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Radiation energetics of ICF-relevant wire-array Z pinches von Sinars, D B, Lemke, R W, Cuneo, M E, Lebedev, S V, Waisman, E M, Stygar, W A, Jones, B, Jones, M C, Yu, E P, Porter, J L, Wenger, D F

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Planar wire-array Z-pinch implosion dynamics and X-ray scaling at multiple-MA drive currents for a compact multisource hohlraum configuration von Jones, B, Ampleford, D J, Vesey, R A, Cuneo, M E, Coverdale, C A, Waisman, E M, Jones, M C, Fowler, W E, Stygar, W A, Serrano, J D, Vigil, M P, Esaulov, A A, Kantsyrev, V L, Safronova, A S, Williamson, K M, Chuvatin, A S, Rudakov, L I

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Displacement current phenomena in the magnetically insulated transmission lines of the refurbished Z accelerator von McBride, R. D., Jennings, C. A., Vesey, R. A., Rochau, G. A., Savage, M. E., Stygar, W. A., Cuneo, M. E., Sinars, D. B., Jones, M., LeChien, K. R., Lopez, M. R., Moore, J. K., Struve, K. W., Wagoner, T. C., Waisman, E. M.

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Demonstration of radiation pulse shaping with nested-tungsten-wire-array Z pinches for high-yield inertial confinement fusion von CUNEO, M. E, VESEY, R. A, SCHROEN, D. G, MAZARAKIS, M. G, CHANDLER, G. A, MEHLHORN, T. A, SINARS, D. B, CHITTENDEN, J. P, WAISMAN, E. M, LEMKE, R. W, LEBEDEV, S. V, BLISS, D. E, STYGAR, W. A, PORTER, J. L

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Effects of mass ablation on the scaling of X-ray power with current in wire-array Z pinches von Lemke, R W, Sinars, D B, Waisman, E M, Cuneo, M E, Yu, E P, Haill, T A, Hanshaw, H L, Brunner, T A, Jennings, C A, Stygar, W A, Desjarlais, M P, Mehlhorn, T A, Porter, J L

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Demonstration of Radiation Pulse-Shaping Capabilities Using Nested Conical Wire-Array Z-Pinches von Ampleford, D. J., Bland, S. N., Cuneo, M. E., Lebedev, S. V., Sinars, D. B., Jennings, C. A., Waisman, E. M., Vesey, R. A., Hall, G. N., Suzuki-Vidal, F., Chittenden, J. P., Bott, S. C.

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Energy loss to conductors operated at lineal current densities ≤ 10     MA / cm : Semianalytic model, magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and experiment von Stygar, W. A., Rosenthal, S. E., Ives, H. C., Wagoner, T. C., Allshouse, G. O., Androlewicz, K. E., Donovan, G. L., Fehl, D. L., Frese, M. H., Gilliland, T. L., Johnson, M. F., Mills, J. A., Reisman, D. B., Reynolds, P. G., Speas, C. S., Spielman, R. B., Struve, K. W., Toor, A., Waisman, E. M.

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