Metallization of hydrogen using heavy-ion-beam implosion of multilayered cylindrical targets

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2001 Jan;63(1 Pt 2):016402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016402. Epub 2000 Dec 19.

Abstract

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.