Four decades in the megagauss world

Abstract

This paper contains a short history of the generation and application of megagauss magnetic fields obtained by explosive flux compression at Los Alamos over the last four decades, a brief description of the high field systems most commonly used for solid state research, and a survey of results obtained from a Los Alamos shot series in which Russian built high field generators were also used, the forerunner of the later Dirac 1 and 2 shot series.