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.

Z-pinch

W. H. Bennett, Phys. Rev. 45, 890 (1934)

The pinch relation and profile.

M. G. Haines, A review of the dense Z-pinch, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 53, 093001 (2011)

§2 equilibrium, §5 stability; the growth-rate ordering.

B. B. Kadomtsev, Reviews of Plasma Physics 2, 153 (1966)

The \(m = 0\) criterion.

U. Shumlak, C. W. Hartman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3285 (1995)

Sheared-axial-flow stabilisation threshold \(0.1\,k v_A\).

R. S. Pease (1957); S. I. Braginskii (1958); J. Klíř, The Study of a Fibre Z-Pinch, PhD thesis, CTU Prague (2005), arXiv:physics/0703207, eq. (2.20)

The critical current in closed form, with NRL Plasma Formulary coefficients converted to SI.

Theta-pinch

W. E. Quinn et al., Review of Scyllac theta-pinch experiments, LA-UR-73-1053 (1973), OSTI 4460392

Open access. Eqs. 3, 4, 6, 7; Fig. 2 anchor point; the worked wall example; p. 16 and Table I end-loss rows (Scyllac linear 5 m, Scylla IV-1, Scylla IV-3).

Dense plasma focus

S. Lee, Plasma Focus Radiative Model: Review of the Lee Model Code, J. Fusion Energ. 33, 319–335 (2014)

Eqs. 1, 4–7, 9, 14, 15, 24–28, 32, 34, 39–48, 50; the scaling law \(9\times10^{10}I^{3.8}\).

S. H. Saw, S. Lee, Investigation of Intense Fusion Pulses, IAEA-TECDOC-1829 (2017), pp. 84–86, Table 1

Twelve machines fitted with the code; PF1000, NX3, INTI and PF400J rows used as anchors; beam-chain eqs. 5–6, items (a)–(k).

S. Lee, The Plasma Focus: Scaling Properties to Scaling Laws, ICTP 2168-10 (2012)

Tables 2–3: rule-of-thumb geometry and spreads.

NRL Plasma Formulary

Spitzer resistivity and bremsstrahlung coefficients.

Governing documents of the group

SCPN Reactor Family Repository Standard; family repository map; each core's VALIDATION.md and ADR 0005

Boundary, configuration ownership (z_pinch, sheared-flow class, theta_pinch, dense_plasma_focus), evidence maturity, and the evidence records the pages restate.