Reply To: Physics Nobel to Big Bangers

[AaronB]

The axial field coil is working again. We fired some shots on Saturday, but ran out of fill gas for the switches (oops) so we had to stop. After getting a new tank today, we’re good to go. pB11 is still a little ways off, hopefully by January. Finishing with the switches is next, followed by figuring out the current bumps and output relationships. We need to get the pinch and max current to coincide and have that happen sooner. We need to ramp up the voltage without prefiring and get to higher currents. We have lots of data to analyze, but lots of other things are also going on (papers to write, people to call, etc.). It would be nice to have a big crew of physicists and engineers to help share the load. We decided we need several clones of ourselves.