Numerical experiments on plasma focus pinch current limitation

Contrary to the general expectation that performance of a plasma focus would progressively improve with progressive reduction of its static inductance L o , a recent paper suggests that there is in fact an optimum L o below which although the peak total current increases progressively the pinch current and consequently the neutron yield of that plasma focus would not increase, but instead decreases. This paper describes the numerical experiments and results that led to this conclusion.