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Guest Editor's Preface: Z-Pinch Special Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2002

Rick B. Spielman
Rick B. Spielman
Affiliation:
Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM
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Z pinches have long been interesting to plasma physicists because of the simplicity of their geometry. They were studied first in the 1950s as potential fusion configurations and, later, as intense X-ray sources both for military and civilian applications. The development of pulsed power technologies, some reaching energy and power levels of 3 MJ and 50 TW, respectively, by many organizations around the world has accelerated the interest in z pinches for fusion applications.

Type
GUEST EDITOR'S PREFACE
Information
Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 321
Copyright
2001 Cambridge University Press