Kinetic simulation of thermonuclear-neutron production by a 10-A deuterium Z pinch

D. R. Welch, D. V. Rose, C. Thoma, R. E. Clark, C. B. Mostrom et al. Fully kinetic simulations have demonstrated that at sufficiently high currents, half of the neutrons produced by a deuterium Z-pinch are thermonuclear in origin. At 150-kA pinch current, O. A. Anderson et al. [Phys. Rev. 110, 1375 (1958)] clearly shows that essentially all of the neutrons produced b ... [Phys. Plasmas 17, 072702 (2010)] published Mon Jul 26, 2010.