Acceleration of intense ion beam by Z-pinch

The Z-pinch is considered for acceleration of an intense ion beam. The imploding Z-pinch traps an applied axial magnetic field and conserves trapped magnetic flux. The axial magnetic field increases due to compression of the outer pinch and attains values up to 10´s of Megagauss with field risetimes of, dBz/dt > 5 MG/ns, and with orders of magnitude shorter rise time than the Z-pinch current. For ion beam acceleration, low energy ions are initially injected and trapped inside this rising magnetic field. Due to the conservation of canonical-angular momentum the ions are accelerated to a final azimuthal energy which can be a hundred to a thousand times greater than their initial energy (Eθfinal ≥ 10´s of MeV/amu). Such a beam of high energy ions could have many applications, including the production of intense X-ray radiation, radio-nuclides, fusion, etc.