Generation of Ultrafast Jets through the Implosion of a Nested Conical Wire Array

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that nested conical wire arrays can produce ultrafast jets with velocities around 10^8 cm/s, offering potential applications in plasma stabilization and nuclear fusion ignition.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using nested conical wire arrays with opposite angles to generate ultrafast jets, differing from traditional single array methods.

Findings

Ultrafast jets with velocities ~10^8 cm/s are produced.

Nested conical wire arrays enable jet generation unlike single arrays.

Potential applications include plasma stabilization and fast ignition in fusion.

Abstract

It is shown that in contrast to the electric pulse power driven implosion of a single conical wire array, the implosion of a nested conical wire array with opposite alternate opening angles can lead to the generation of fast jets, with velocities of the order 108 cm/s. This technique can be applied for the supersonic shear flow stabilization of a dense z-pinch, but possibly also for the fast ignition of a pre-compressed dense deuterium-tritium target.