Peer Reviewed Papers

Physics of Plasmas – 2023

What are the fastest routes to fusion energy? (AIP Publishing, PDF 855 KB)

Journal of Fusion Energy – 2023

Focus Fusion: Overview of Progress Towards p-B11 Fusion with the Dense Plasma Focus (Springer Link, PDF 1.7 MB)

Physics of Plasmas – 2017

Confined ion energy >200 keV and increased fusion yield in a DPF with monolithic tungsten electrodes and pre-ionization (AIP Publishing, PDF 1.1 MB)

Physics of Plasmas – 2014

Runaway electrons as a source of impurity and reduced fusion yield in the dense plasma focus (AIP Publishing, PDF 457 KB)

ICPIG – 2013

Increasing plasmoid ion density in a MA plasma focus device (XXXI ICPIG, PDF 295 KB)

Physics of Plasmas – 2012

Fusion reactions from >150 keV ions in a dense plasma focus plasmoid (AIP Publishing, PDF 553 KB)

Nukleonika – 2012

Fusion reaction scaling in a mega-amp dense plasma focus (Nukleonika, PDF 614 KB)

Journal of Fusion Energy – 2011

Theory and Experimental Program for p-B11 Fusion with the Dense Plasma Focus (Springer Nature, PDF 796 KB)

Conference paper:

Ahmad Talaei and E. Lerner “Viscous and induced current heating in plasma focus plasmoids” Proceeding of 54th annual meeting of the APS division of plasma physics, vol. 57, No. 12, RI, USA, 2012 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=graduate_presentations

Invited Presentations:

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 2013

Oxford University Science Society, May, 2014

PLASMA 2017

PLASMA 2019

International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications, 2022

Workshop on Proton-Boron Fusion, 2023

Astrophysics Papers

The Big Bang Never Happened – 2022

The Big Bang Never Happened – A Reassessment of the Galactic Origin of Light Elements (GOLE) Hypothesis and its Implications, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21108.63366 (2022)

Confirmation of Plasma Theory – 2022

Observations of Large-Scale Structures Contradict the Predictions of the Big Bang Hypothesis But Confirm Plasma Theory, Eric J Lerner, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26141.79844 (2022)

Will LCDM cosmology survive the James Webb Space Telescope? – 2022

Will LCDM cosmology survive the James Webb Space Telescope? Riccardo Scarpa, Eric J Lerner, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361208585 (2022)

Contradicting the Expanding Universe Hypothesis – 2018

Observations contradict galaxy size and surface brightness predictions that are based on the expanding universe hypothesis, Eric J Lerner, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477, 3185, 2018

UV surface brightness of galaxies from the local universe to z ∼ 5 – 2014

UV surface brightness of galaxies from the local universe to z ∼ 5, Eric J. Lerner, Renato Falomo, Riccardo Scarpa, International Journal of Modern Physics D, 23, 1450058 (2014) https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0275

Preliminary Results of Tolman Test challenge the Expanding Universe Model – 2009

Tolman Test from z = 0.1 to z = 5.5: Preliminary Results Challenge the Expanding Universe Model.  Lerner, E. J.,  2nd Crisis in Cosmology Conference, CCC-2. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 413, Proceedings of the conference held 7-11 September 2008, at Port Angeles, Washington, USA. Edited by Frank Potter. San Francisco, Astronomical Society of the Pacific,p.12 (2009) https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.4284

Do Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies Exist? – 2007

Do Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies Exist?  Scarpa, R.; Falomo, R.; Lerner, E.  The Astrophysical Journal, 668, 74 (2007)

Evidence for a Non-Expanding Universe – 2006

Evidence for a Non-Expanding Universe: Surface Brightness Data From HUDF Authors: Lerner, Eric J. 1st, CCC-1. Crisis in Cosmology Conference, CCC-1, AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 822, pp. 60-74 (2006). https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509611

A comparison of plasma cosmology and the big bang – 2003

Two world systems revisited: A comparison of plasma cosmology and the big bang, E.J. Lerner, IEEE transactions on plasma science 31, 1268 (2003) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3165569

Intergalactic Radio Absorption and the COBE Data – 1995

Intergalactic Radio Absorption and the COBE Data, Astrophysics and Space Science, E.J. Lerner 227, 61 (1995) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227122671

On the Problem of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Astrophysics and Space Science – 1995

On the Problem of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, Astrophysics and Space Science, E.J. Lerner 227, 145 (1995) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226051594

The Case Against the Big Bang – 1993

The Case Against the Big Bang, E.J. Lerner, in Progress in New Cosmologies, Halton C. Arp et al, eds., Plenum Press (New York), 1993 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260864724

Confirmation of Radio Absorption by the Intergalactic Medium – 1993

Confirmation of Radio Absorption by the Intergalactic Medium, E.J. Lerner, Astrophysics and Space Science, 207, 17 (1993) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225310592

Force-Free Magnetic Filaments and the Cosmic Background Radiation – 1992

Force-Free Magnetic Filaments and the Cosmic Background Radiation, E.J. Lerner IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 20, 935 (1992) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3163331

Radio Absorption by the Intergalactic Medium – 1990

Radio Absorption by the Intergalactic Medium, E.J. Lerner The Astrophysical Journal, 361, 63 (1990) https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1990ApJ…361…63L

Galactic Model of Element Formation – 1989

Galactic Model of Element Formation, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 17, 259 (1989) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3162866

Plasma Model of the Microwave Background – 1988

Plasma Model of the Microwave Background, E.J. Lerner Laser and Particle Beams, 6, 456 (1988) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231991223

Magnetic Vortex Filaments, Universal Invariants and the Fundamental Constants – 1986

Magnetic Vortex Filaments, Universal Invariants and the Fundamental Constants, E.J. Lerner IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Special Issue on Cosmic Plasma, PS-14, 690 (1986) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3167414

Magnetic Self-Compression in Laboratory Plasma, Quasars and Radio Galaxies – 1986

Magnetic Self-Compression in Laboratory Plasma, Quasars and Radio Galaxies, Part 1, Part 2. , E.J. Lerner, Laser and Particle Beams, 4, 193 (1986) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231853568, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231988333

Magnetic Self-Compression in Laboratory Plasma, Quasars and Radio Galaxies – 1985

Magnetic self-compression in laboratory plasmas, quasars and radio galaxies. Part I (Cambridge University Press, PDF 7.81 MB)

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