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Y Zhang1, U Shumlak1, B A Nelson1
1Aerospace & Energetics Research Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
Abstract:
The sheared-flow stabilized Z pinch has demonstrated long-lived plasmas with fusion-relevant parameters. We present the first experimental results demonstrating sustained, quasi-steady-state neutron production from the fusion Z-pinch experiment, operated with a mixture of 20% deuterium/80% hydrogen by pressure. Neutron emissions lasting approximately 5 μs are reproducibly observed with pinch currents of approximately 200 kA during an approximately 16 μs period of plasma quiescence. The average neutron yield is estimated to be (1.25±0.45)×10^{5} neutrons/pulse and scales with the square of the deuterium concentration. Coincident with the neutron signal, plasma temperatures of 1-2 keV and densities of approximately 10^{17} cm^{-3} with 0.3 cm pinch radii are measured with fully integrated diagnostics.
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