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Sources

Every number on these pages traces to one of the documents below, either as a value the document prints or as a value the family's repository declares in its place and says so. Where a cited paper is not on file, the pages say that too.

Filed sources the device cores anchor on

SAND2021-3239B — Slutz et al., Sandia National Laboratories (public chapter): MagLIF: the printed liner (10 mm tall, 5 mm outer diameter, 0.5 mm wall), the first integrated experiment (10 T, 0.5 kJ preheat, 18 MA), the implosion velocity range 70–100 km/s. A related public chapter; the cited S. A. Slutz et al., Phys. Plasmas 17 (2010) 056303 is not on file. Used by SCPN-MIF-MAGLIF-CORE.
LA-7686-MS — R. W. Moses, R. A. Krakowski, R. L. Miller, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1979: Fast Liner Reactor design points, Table II-I: liner inner radius 0.2 m and 0.3 m, thickness 3.0 mm and 4.5 mm, azimuthal field 13.0 T, liner energy 0.336 GJ and 0.756 GJ; copper liner 0.2 m long, implosion 20–40 µs. Used by SCPN-MIF-LINER-CORE.
S. C. Hsu et al., arXiv:1201.1879 (2012): Plasma-jet liner array: 30 jets, 50 km/s, 300 mg, 376 kJ, jet radius 5 cm, initial density 6.63×10⁻⁴ kg/m³, 3 m chamber; a study of whether the jets merge. Used by SCPN-MIF-PLASMA-JET-CORE.
Zhu & Wu, arXiv:2607.11908v1 (2026): Whole-device kinetic model of the Yingguang-1 FRC formation experiment; Table I prints the as-built coil (inner diameter 12.4 cm, active length 36 cm, eight coils on a 4.5 cm pitch) and the fill density 2×10¹⁵ cm⁻³. Used by SCPN-FRC-CORE.
Bala, Zhu, Li et al., arXiv:2204.07978v1 (2022): Quasi-static FRC study; equation 14 prints the empirical kinetic-scale bound \(S^*/E < 3.5\). Used by SCPN-FRC-CORE.

Literature the FRC-compression core cites

L. C. Steinhauer, Review of field-reversed configurations, Physics of Plasmas 18, 070501 (2011): The FRC review.
J. Slough, G. Votroubek, C. Pihl, Creation of a high-temperature plasma through merging and compression of supersonic field-reversed configuration plasmoids, Nuclear Fusion 51, 053008 (2011): Merging and compression of counter-propagating FRC plasmoids, the scheme of the FRC-compression configuration.
M. Ono et al., Physics of Plasmas 4, 1953 (1997): Magnetic-mode-based FRC modelling; equation 8 is the non-adiabatic flux evolution implemented in SCPN-Fusion-Core.
E. V. Belova et al., Physics of Plasmas 8, 1267 (2001): Tilt stability of prolate FRCs.
A. L. Velikovich et al., Physics of Plasmas 14, 022701 (2007): Magneto-Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in MagLIF; equation 18 is the growth rate implemented in SCPN-Fusion-Core.
A. B. Sefkow et al., Design of MagLIF experiments on the Z facility, Physics of Plasmas 21, 072711 (2014): MagLIF experimental design.
M. B. Moffett, D. L. Chesny, U.S. Patent 12,567,738 B1 (2026): Solid-state switch arrays for digitised plasma control; the citation boundary is recorded in the SCPN-MIF-Core source note.

Governing documents of the group

SCPN Reactor Family Repository Standard: Research-group boundary, canonical project assignments by family, the six evidence-maturity states, scientific artifact custody and the standalone repository scaffold gate.
Family repository map: Which core owns which SPO configuration: maglif, mechanical_or_liquid_liner_mif, plasma_jet_mif, frc_compression_mif.
Each core's VALIDATION.md and ADR 0005: The evidence record of level-0 device physics: what is exercised, what is printed, what is declared, what is not claimed.