Review of pulsed power-driven high energy density physics research on Z at Sandia
D. B. Sinars, M. A. Sweeney, C. S. Alexander, D. J. Ampleford, Tommy Ao, J. P. Apruzese, C. Aragon, Darrell J. Armstrong, Kevin Austin, T. J. Awe, Andrew Baczewski, J. E. Bailey, K. L. Baker, C. R. Ball, H. T. Barclay, Scott Beatty, Kris Beckwith, Kate Bell, J.F. Benage, Nichelle Bennett, K. Blaha, David E. Bliss, Jeremiah J. Boerner, C. J. Bourdon, Brittany Branch, Justin Brown, E. M. Campbell, R. B. Campbell, D. G. Chacon, G. A. Chandler, K. M. Chandler, P. J. Christenson, M. D. Christison, E. B. Christner, Raymond C. Clay, Kyle Cochrane, Anthony P. Colombo, Brian Cook, C. A. Coverdale, M. E. Cuneo, Jonathan S. Custer, A. Dasgupta, Jean‐Paul Davis, M. P. Desjarlais, D. H. Dolan, J. D. Douglass, G. S. Dunham, Sakun Duwal, Aaron Edens, M.J. Edwards, Evstati Evstatiev, Bernardo Farfan, Jeffrey Fein, Ella Suzanne Field, John Arbuthnot Fisher, T. M. Flanagan, Dawn G. Flicker, Michael D. Furnish, Benjamin Galloway, Paul Gard, Thomas Gardiner, Matthias Geißel, J. L. Giuliani, Michael E. Glinsky, M. R. Gómez, Thomas Gomez, G. P. Grim, Kelly Hahn, Thomas A. Haill, Nathaniel Hamlin, J. H. Hammer, Stephanie B. Hansen, Heath L. Hanshaw, Eric Harding, A. J. Harvey-Thompson, Daniel Headley, Mark Herrmann, Mark Hess, Clark Highstrete, O. A. Hurricane, Brian Hutsel, Christopher Jennings, Owen Johns, Drew Johnson, Mark D. Johnston, B. M. Jones, M. C. Jones, P. A. Jones, Patricia Kalita, R. J. Kamm, J. W. Kellogg, Mark L. Kiefer, Mark Kimmel, Patrick Knapp, Marcus D. Knudson, A. Kreft, George Laity, P. W. Lake, Derek C. Lamppa, William L. Langston
Abstract
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.