User:WarpingSpacetime/Wave Accelerated Ring Pinch Reactor

The Wave Accelerated Ring Pinch (WARP) Reactor. is a novel petawatt-class pulsed power machine, invented by physicist Michael G. Anderson, which promises orders-of-magnitude increase in the generation and acceleration efficiency of ultra-intense high energy ion beams for magneto-inertial confinement fusion, super-radiant flash x-ray/neutron generation and the study of new Relativistic High Energy Density (RHED) physics

WARP Reactor Concept
The WARP Reactor concept utilizes pulsed power modules to drive its WARP Core which consists primarily of two Dense Plasma Focuses (DPFs) and two Ion Ring Marx Generators (IRMGs) fired directly at one another. The two DPF and IRMG heads with embedded reflex triodes are implemented to reduce the size and cost of the drivers and increase ion ring generation, capture and acceleration efficiencies along with the added benefits of favorable magnetic field line curvature throughout the plasma liner implosion process due to higher velocity shear-stabilized pinch flows near gun muzzles and greater machine tuning capability for properly timing the liner implosion and ion beam generation, injection and compression of the two colliding and subsequently merged ion rings onto a solid target.

WARP achieves its performance boost by injecting two tubular MeV ion beams from opposite ends of a double-barreled DPF head and through magnetic cusps to form co-rotating ion rings which collide and merge near the mid-plane of the device and are then subsequently radially compressed and azimuthally accelerated to GeV energies during the properly timed dual DPF plasma liner implosions.



WARP Reactor Physics
The physics behind the radial compression and azimuthal acceleration of the ion rings is as follows: The dual DPF-generated imploding plasma liners flux-compress a seed axial magnetic field creating a rapidly rising “magnetic wave” which causes the merged ion rings to radially compress via the Lorentz force and, due to the conservation of magnetic flux and canonical angular momentum, subsequently increases the ion ring azimuthal energy, which goes as: Efinal ~ Einitial x (Rinitial / Rfinal)2.