Abstract
A dense z-pinch generated by a high voltage discharge over a corrugated helical sawtooth-shaped capillary tube with a solid DT core, is by shear flow stabilized against the m = 0 and m= 1 magnetohydrodynamic instabilities, and by rotational flow against the Rayleigh-Taylor instability. The shear-and rotational flow result from jet formation by the corrugated surface. A programmed voltage pulse can then isentropically compress the DT core to high densities, and if ignited at one end by a petawatt laser pulse, a thermonuclear detonation wave can be launched propagating along the z-pinch channel. The proposed z-pinch burn should also work without tritium as a thermonuclear detonation wave in deuterium.
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