Abstract
A new ignition concept for thermonuclear reactions is described, in which an electron cloud produced by inductive charge injection and reaching the Brillouin limit, is magnetically compressed inside a long cylindrical solenoid. For sufficiently fast compression, the front of the cloud becomes a relativistically contracted annular disk of high-energy density, which upon impact on a grounded target leads to a cylindrical implosion easily exceeding the power fluxes required for the ignition of thermonuclear microexplosions. Unlike concepts proposed in the past to ignite thermonuclear microexplosions by relativistic electron beams, the energy delivered to the target is not in the form of kinetic particle energy but in the form of an intense electromagnetic pulse.
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