{"paper":{"title":"Sustained neutron production from a sheared-flow stabilized Z-pinch","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"physics.plasm-ph","authors_text":"A. D. Stepanov, B. A. Nelson, C.M. Cooper, D.P. Higginson, E. G. Forbes, E. L. Claveau, H.S. McLean, J.M. Mitrani, K.K. Tummel, R. P. Golingo, T.R. Weber, U. Shumlak, Y. Zhang, Z. T. Draper","submitted_at":"2018-06-15T10:34:49Z","abstract_excerpt":"The sheared-flow stabilized $Z$-pinch has demonstrated long-lived plasmas with fusion-relevant parameters. This Letter presents the first experimental results demonstrating sustained, quasi-steady-state neutron production from the Fusion $Z$-pinch Experiment (FuZE), operated with a mixture of 20% deuterium/80% hydrogen by volume. Neutron emissions lasting approximately $5~\\mu$s are reproducibly observed with pinch currents of approximately $200$ kA during an approximately $16~\\mu$s period of plasma quiescence. The average neutron yield is estimated to be $\\left ( 1.25\\pm 0.45 \\right )\\times 10"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1806.05894","kind":"arxiv","version":4},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}