Stability Measurements of a Staged Z-Pinch with Applied Axial Magnetic Field

In many Z-pinch experiments, the magneto Rayleigh-Taylor instability and other MHD instabilities are potentially disruptive to the pinch. It has been demonstrated that multi -shell Z- pinch loads and an externally-applied axial magnetic field can mitigate these instabilities
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. An external magnetic field has been applied in Staged Z-pinch
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(SZP), where a high-atomic-number gas liner (Ar or Kr) implodes onto a deuterium target in cylindrical geometry.