Mario Favre
Instituto de Física
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

High Density Pinch Discharges:

1.      F. Veloso, L. Donoso, G. Swadling , J. Chittenden, G. Muñoz, V. Valenzuela, F. Suzuki-Vidal, M. Favre and E.  Wyndham, “Effects of uneven mass distribution on plasma dynamics in cylindrical wire array Z-pinches”, 15th Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (January 27-31, 2014, San José, Costa Rica), J. Physics: Conf. Series 591, 012027 (2015).

2.      G. Muñoz, V. Valenzuela, F. Veloso, M. Favre and E. Wyndham, "Plasma formation and dynamics in conical wire arrays in the Llampüdkeñ pulsed power generator”, 9th International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (August 3–7, 2014, Napa, U. S. A.), AIP Conf. Proc. 1639, 92-95 (2014).

  1. F. Veloso, F. Suzuki-Vidal, F. Molina, I. H. Mitchell, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre and E. S. Wyndham, “Observations of Ablation Dynamics in Wire Array Z-pinch Experiments on the Llampüdkeñ Generator”, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 40, 3319 (2012).
  2. F. Veloso, H. Chuaqui, N. Correa, M. Favre and E. Wyndham, "Compression of a laser initiated hollow gas embedded z-pinch", Plasma Sources. Sci. and Tech. 18, 045012 (6pp) (2009).
  3. F. Veloso, H. Chuaqui, R. Aliaga-Rossel, M. Favre, I. H. Mitchell and E. Wyndham, "Laser Produced Annular Plasmas", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 063506 (2006).
  4. M. Favre, R. Aliaga-Rossel, A. Pernas, G. Avaria, H. Bhuyan, S. Caballero, H. Chuaqui, I. Mitchell, F. Molina, F. Suzuki, F. Veloso, and E. Wyndham, “Z-Pinch like experimental arrangements”, XI Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (5-9 December, 2005, Ciudad de México, México), AIP Conf. Proc. 875, 409-414 (2006).
  5. E. Wyndham, M. Favre, and A. Pernas, “Preliminary Observations of Z-pinch Plasma Formation within a Conducting Coil”, XI Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (5-9 December, 2005, Ciudad de México, México), AIP Conf. Proc. 875, 461-466 (2006).
  6. F. Veloso, H. Chuaqui, R. Aliaga-Rossel, M. Favre, I. Mitchell, and E. Wyndham, “Comparison Between Laser Initiated Hollow Gas Embedded Z-pinches With Different Initial Radius”, ”, XI Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics (5-9 December, 2005, Ciudad de México, México), AIP Conf. Proc. 875, 523-526 (2006).
  7. I H Mitchell, J A Gomez, F A Suzuki, R Aliaga-Rossel, H Chuaqui, M Favre and E Wyndham, "X-ray emission from 125 µm diameter aluminium wire x-pinches at currents of 400 kA", Plasma Sources Sci. and Tech. 14, 501-508 (2005).
  8. F. Suzuki, I. Mitchell, J. Gomez, M. Favre, and E. Wyndham, “Dynamics of X-Pinches on the Llampüdkeñ Generator at 400kA”, 6th Int. Conf. on Dense Z-pinches (25-28 July, 2005, Oxford, U.K.), AIP Conf. Proc. 808,. 157-160 (2005).
  9. S. Channon, I. Mitchell, E. Wyndham, M. Favre, and H. Chuaqui, "Sheared Flow Generation in Imploding Vlasov-Fluid Plasmas", Phys. Scripta 69, 30 (2004).
  10. I. H. Mitchell, R. Aliaga-Rossel, J. A. Gómez, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, and E. S. Wyndham, "X Ray Emission From X Pinch Experiments on the Llampüdkeñ Generator", 5th International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (23-28 June 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.), AIP Conf. Proc. 651, 145-148 (2002).
  11. C. Pavez, H. Chuaqui, R. Aliaga-Rossel, M. Favre, I. Mitchell and E. Wyndham, "Laser Initiated Hollow Gas-Embedded Z-Pinch", 5th International Conference on Dense Z-Pinches (23-28 June 2002, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.), AIP Conf. Proc. 651, 233-236 (2002).
  12. R. Aliaga-Rossel, I. Mitchell, R. Saavedra, H, Chuaqui, M. Favre, and E. Wyndham, "Plasma jet Formation in X-pinch Plasma", 9th Latin American Workshop in Plasma Physics (13-17 November 2000, La Serena, Chile), AIP Conf. Proc. 563, 270-275 (2001).
  13. I.H. Mitchell, R. Aliaga-Rossel, R. Saavedra, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, and E.S. Wyndham, "Investigation of the plasma jet formation in X-pinch plasmas using laser interferometry", Phys. Plasmas 7, 5140-5147 (2000).
  14. L.Soto, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, R. Saavedra, E. Wyndham, M. Skowronek, P. Romeas, R. Aliaga-Rossel, and I. Mitchell, "Gas-embedded Compressional Z-pinch in H2 and D2 ", Astrophys. Space Plas. 256, 443 (1998).
  15. L.Soto, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, R. Saavedra, E. Wyndham, M. Skowronek, P. Romeas, R. Aliaga-Rossel, and I. Mitchell, "Observations of Plasma Dynamics in a Gas Embedded Compressional Z-pinch", IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., 26, 1179 (1998).
  16. P. Choi, M. Favre, C. Dumitrescu-Zoita, J. Moreno, H. Chuaqui, and E. Wyndham, “Experimental Studies on a Pulsed Hollow Cathode Capillary Discharge”, 4th Int. Dense Z-pinch Conference (Vancouver, Canada, May 28-31, 1997), AIP Conf. Proc. 409, 353 (1997).

19.  H. Chuaqui, L. Soto, M. Favre, E. Wyndham, M. Skowronek, "Parameter space comparison with universal diagram for z-pinch stability", 3rd International Conference on Dense Z-Pinch (April 19-23, 1993, London, England),  AIP Conf. Proc. 299, 27-33 (1994)

  1. L. Soto, H. Chuaqui, M. Favre, and E. Wyndham, "A Novel Gas-Embedded Compressional Z-Pinch Configuration”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 2891 (1994).
  2. P. Choi, M. Coppins, A.E. Dangor, and M. Favre, "Investigation of the Gas-embedded Z-pinch", Nuclear Fusion 28, 1771 (1988)
  3. A.E. Dangor, M. Favre, S. Lee, and E. Kahan, "Observations of Radial Equilibrium and Transition to a Helix of a Gas-embedded Z-pinch", Phys. Rev. A 27, 2751 (1983)

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