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Intense Heavy Ion Beams as a Tool to Produce and Analyze Dense Plasmas
Author(s) -
Neuner U.,
Bock R.,
Funk U. N.,
Hoffmann D. H. H.,
Stetter M.,
Stöwe S.,
Tauschwitz A.,
Udrea S.
Publication year - 1999
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/ctpp.2150390112
Subject(s) - warm dense matter , synchrotron , plasma , ion , materials science , energy density , state of matter , atomic physics , shock (circulatory) , beam (structure) , shock wave , computational physics , nuclear physics , physics , condensed matter physics , mechanics , optics , engineering physics , medicine , quantum mechanics
The synchrotron SIS at GSI presently offers the possibility to heat samples of matter at solid state density to temperatures between 0.2 and 1 eV within times shorter than the desintegration time of these samples. Hot matter below solid state density can be investigated using the expanding sample, whereas densities above solid state density are produced by shock wave compression in compound targets. Measurements of sample expansion and pressure as well as corresponding simulations are presented. Future experimental schemes are discussed including the use of the ion beam as a diagnostic tool for dense plasma, relating its energy loss to the sample density.