Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner

Hsu, S. C.; Langendorf, S. J.; Yates, K. C.; Dunn, J. P.; Brockington, S.; Case, A.; Cruz, E.; Witherspoon, F. D.; Gilmore, M. A.; Cassibry, J. T.; Samulyak, R.; Stoltz, P.; Schillo, K.; Shih, W.; Beckwith, K.; Thio, Y. C.  F.

doi:10.1109/TPS.2017.2779421

Title: Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner

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^[1]; Langendorf, S. J. ^[1]; Yates, K. C. ^[2]; Dunn, J. P. ^[1]; Brockington, S. ^[3]; Case, A. ^[3]; Cruz, E. ^[3]; Witherspoon, F. D. ^[3]; Gilmore, M. A. ^[2];

^[4]; Samulyak, R. ^[5]; Stoltz, P. ^[6]; Schillo, K. ^[4]; Shih, W. ^[5]; Beckwith, K. ^[7]; Thio, Y. C. F. ^[8]

Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
HyperV Technologies Corp., Chantilly, VA (United States)
Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States). Propulsion Research Center
Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO (United States)
Tech-X Corporation, Boulder, CO (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
HyperJet Fusion Corporation, Chantilly, VA (United States)

Publication Date:: Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2017

Research Org.:: Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

OSTI Identifier:: 1414263

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1417824; OSTI ID: 1426785

Report Number(s):: LA-UR-17-28898; BNL-203275-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-06NA25396; SC0012704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: PP; Journal Issue: 99; Journal ID: ISSN 0093-3813

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Plasma applications; plasmas; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING

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                    Hsu, S. C., Langendorf, S. J., Yates, K. C., Dunn, J. P., Brockington, S., Case, A., Cruz, E., Witherspoon, F. D., Gilmore, M. A., Cassibry, J. T., Samulyak, R., Stoltz, P., Schillo, K., Shih, W., Beckwith, K., and Thio, Y. C.  F. Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Hsu, S. C., Langendorf, S. J., Yates, K. C., Dunn, J. P., Brockington, S., Case, A., Cruz, E., Witherspoon, F. D., Gilmore, M. A., Cassibry, J. T., Samulyak, R., Stoltz, P., Schillo, K., Shih, W., Beckwith, K., & Thio, Y. C.  F. Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2017.2779421

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                    Hsu, S. C., Langendorf, S. J., Yates, K. C., Dunn, J. P., Brockington, S., Case, A., Cruz, E., Witherspoon, F. D., Gilmore, M. A., Cassibry, J. T., Samulyak, R., Stoltz, P., Schillo, K., Shih, W., Beckwith, K., and Thio, Y. C.  F. Mon .  
"Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2017.2779421.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1414263.

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  title        = {Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner},

  author       = {Hsu, S. C. and Langendorf, S. J. and Yates, K. C. and Dunn, J. P. and Brockington, S. and Case, A. and Cruz, E. and Witherspoon, F. D. and Gilmore, M. A. and Cassibry, J. T. and Samulyak, R. and Stoltz, P. and Schillo, K. and Shih, W. and Beckwith, K. and Thio, Y. C.  F.},

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  year         = {Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2017},

  month        = {Mon Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2017}

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Fig. 1: Illustration of the PLX-α experimental setup, which will ultimately have at least 36 and up to 60 (as shown) coaxial plasma guns mounted around a 2.74-m-diameter vacuum chamber. Shown are plasma guns with integrated capacitor banks and a spherically imploding plasma liner compressing a magnetized plasma target. Themore »

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