Phys. Rev. E 63, 016402 (2000) [9 pages]Metallization of hydrogen using heavy-ion-beam implosion of multilayered cylindrical targetsReceived 12 May 2000; published 19 December 2000 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/cm3, a pressure of 3–5 Mbar, and a temperature of a few 0.1 eV. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016402
PACS:
51.50.+v, 51.60.+a, 51.70.+f
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