Probing local electron temperature and density inside a sheared flow stabilized Z-pinch using portable optical Thomson scattering

J. T. Banasek, C. Goyon, S. C. Bott-Suzuki, G. F. Swadling, M. Quinley, B. Levitt, B. A. Nelson, U. Shumlak, and H. S. McLean.

Review of Scientific Instruments, 94:023508, 2023.

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Thermonuclear neutron emission from a sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch

J. M. Mitrani, J. A. Brown, B. L. Goldblum, T. A. Laplace, E. L. Claveau, Z. T. Draper, E. G. Forbes, R. P. Golingo, H. S. McLean, B. A. Nelson, U. Shumlak, A. Stepanov, T. R. Weber, Y. Zhang, and D. P. Higginson.

Physics of Plasmas, 28:112509, 2021.

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Development of five-moment two-fluid Modeling for Z-pinch physics

E.T. Meier and U. Shumlak.

Physics of Plasmas, 28:092512, 2021.

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Flow Z-pinch plasma production on the FuZE experiment

A. D. Stepanov, U. Shumlak, H. S. McLean, B. A. Nelson, E. L. Claveau, E. G. Forbes, T. R. Weber, and Y. Zhang.

Physics of Plasmas, 27(11):112503, 2020.

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Plasma exhaust in a sheared-ﬂow-stabilized Z-pinch

E. L. Claveau, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, E. G. Forbes, A. D. Stepanov, T. R. Weber, Y. Zhang, and H. S. McLean.

Physics of Plasmas, 27(9):092510, 2020.

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Spatio-Temporal Ion Temperature and Velocity Measurements in a Z-pinch Using Fast-framing Spectroscopy

E. G. Forbes and U. Shumlak.

Review of Scientiﬁc Instruments, 91(8):083104, 2020.

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Z-pinch fusion

U. Shumlak

Journal of Applied Physics, 127(20):200901, 2020.

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Progress toward a compact fusion reactor using the sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch

E. G. Forbes, U. Shumlak, H. S. McLean, B. A. Nelson, E. L. Claveau, R. P. Golingo, D. P. Higginson, J. M. Mitrani, A. D. Stepanov, K. K. Tummel, T. R. Weber, and Y. Zhang.

Fusion Science and Technology, 75(7):599-607, 2019.

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Measurements of temporally-and spatially-resolved neutron production in a sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch

J. M. Mitrani, D. P. Higginson, Z. T. Draper, J. Morrell, L. A. Bernstein, E. L. Claveau, C. M. Cooper, E. G. Forbes, R. P. Golingo, B. A. Nelson, A. E. Schmidt, A. D. Stepanov, T. R. Weber, Y. Zhang, H. S. McLean, and U. Shumlak.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 947:162764, 2019.

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Sustained neutron production from a sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch

Y. Zhang, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, R. P. Golingo, T. R. Weber, A. D. Stepanov, E. L. Claveau, E. G. Forbes, Z. T. Draper, J. M. Mitrani, H. S. McLean, K. K. Tummel, D. P. Higginson, and C. M. Cooper.

Phys. Rev. Lett., 122:135001, Apr 2019.

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Kinetic simulations of sheared flow stabilization in high-temperature Z-pinch plasmas

K. Tummel, D. P. Higginson, A. J. Link, A. E. W. Schmidt, D. T. Offermann, D. R. Welch, R. E. Clark, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, R. P. Golingo, and H. S. McLean.

Physics of Plasmas, 26(6):062506, 2019.

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Increasing plasma parameters using sheared flow stabilization of a Z-pinch

U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, E. L. Claveau, E. G. Forbes, R. P. Golingo, M. C. Hughes, R. J. Oberto, M. P. Ross, and T. R. Weber.

Physics of Plasmas, 24(5):055702, 2017.

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