Metallization of hydrogen using heavy-ion-beam implosion of multilayered cylindrical targets.
Employing a two-dimensional simulation model, this paper presents a suitable design for an experiment to study metallization of hydrogen in a heavy-ion beam imploded multilayered cylindrical target that contains a layer of frozen hydrogen. Such an experiment will be carried out at the upgraded heavy-ion synchrotron facility (SIS-18) at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt by the end of the year 2001. In these calculations we consider a uranium beam that will be available at the upgraded SIS-18. Our calculations show that it may be possible to achieve theoretically predicted physical conditions necessary to create metallic hydrogen in such experiments. These include a density of about 1 g/cm(3), a pressure of 3-5 Mbar, and a temperature of a few 0.1 eV.
Tahir
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Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schlossgarten Strasse 9, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany.
Hoffmann
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DH
Kozyreva
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A
Tauschwitz
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A
Shutov
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A
Maruhn
J A
JA
Spiller
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Neuner
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U
Jacoby
J
J
Roth
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M
Bock
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Juranek
H
H
Redmer
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