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Metallization of Hydrogen Using Heavy Ion Imploded Multi‐Layered Cylindrical Targets
Author(s) -
Tahir N.A.,
Kozyreva A.,
Hoffmann D.H.H.,
Shutov A.,
Spiller P.,
Neuner U.,
Tauschwitz A.,
Jacoby J.,
Roth M.,
Maruhn J.A.,
Bock R.,
Juranek H.,
Redmer R.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3986(200103)41:2/3<287::aid-ctpp287>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - ion , hydrogen , synchrotron , atomic physics , materials science , beam (structure) , ion beam , uranium , heavy ion , nuclear physics , physics , optics , quantum mechanics
This paper shows with the help of two‐dimensional hydrodynamic simulations that it may be possible to achieve theoretically predicted physical conditions required for hydrogen metallization in heavy ion imploded multi‐layered cylindrical targets. These include a density of about 1 g/cm 3 , a pressure of 2–5 Mbar and a temperature of a few 0.1 eV in the compressed hydrogen sample. In this study an intense uranium beam consisting of 10 12 ions having a particle energy of 400 MeV/u is considered. The ions are delivered in a single bunch that as a length of 50 ns. These beam parameters are the design parameters for the future 200 Tm synchrotron facility, SIS–200, that will be constructed at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt.