Proposal for the Study of Thermophysical Properties of High-Energy-Density Matter Using Current and Future Heavy-Ion Accelerator Facilities at GSI Darmstadt

Abstract

The subject of high-energy-density (HED) states in matter is of considerable importance to numerous branches of basic as well as applied physics. Intense heavy-ion beams are an excellent tool to create large samples of HED matter in the laboratory with fairly uniform physical conditions. Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, is a unique worldwide laboratory that has a heavy-ion synchrotron, SIS18, that delivers intense beams of energetic heavy ions. Construction of a much more powerful synchrotron, SIS100, at the future international facility for antiprotons and ion research (FAIR) at Darmstadt will lead to an increase in beam intensity by 3 orders of magnitude compared to what is currently available. The purpose of this Letter is to investigate with the help of two-dimensional numerical simulations, the potential of the FAIR to carry out research in the field of HED states in matter.

High energy density physics research at IMP, Lanzhou, China

“…The key parameters related to HEDP research at the HIAF and other advanced heavy ion drivers are listed in Table 1, where E 0 , N , E total , S f , t, and E ρ are the particle energy, the beam intensity (in units of ppp), the total beam energy per pulse, the FWHM of the beam spot, the pulse duration, and the energy density in a lead target, respectively [2][3][4] .…”

“…Email: zhaoyt@impcas.ac.cn by methods of high energy proton/ion radiography and in fast ignition of a compressed fuel. Associated investigations have been pursued with increasing intensity by major accelerator laboratories and institutions in Europe, the USA, Russia, and Japan, where significant progress has been made during the last few decades [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] .…”

Generation of warm dense matter and strongly coupled plasmas using the High Radiation on Materials facility at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron

“…This shows that a substantial progress in the technology of high intensity bunched beams is required to achieve ion beam ICF. However, theoretical work that includes sophisticated two-and three-dimensional numerical simulations as well as analytic modeling [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] has shown that one can carry out very useful work in the field of high energy density ͑HED͒ physics using the existing ion beam facilities and those which will be available in the foreseeable future.…”

Prospects of high energy density physics research using the CERN super proton synchrotron (SPS)

“…HED states in matter is a very important subject with very wide applications to numerous fields in basic and applied physics, as well as it has great potential for different important industrial applications (Tahir et al, 1999(Tahir et al, , 2000a(Tahir et al, , 2000b(Tahir et al, , 2001a(Tahir et al, , 2001b(Tahir et al, , 2005c(Tahir et al, , 2005dPiriz et al, 2002Piriz et al, , 2003aPiriz et al, , 2003bPiriz et al, , 2006Piriz et al, , 2007aPiriz et al, , 2007bTemporal et al, 2003Temporal et al, , 2005Lopez Cela et al, 2006;Hoffmann et al, 2005).…”