Metallization of hydrogen using heavy ion imploded multi-layered cylindrical targets

This paper shows with the help of two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations that it may be possible to achieve theoretically predicted physical conditi ons required for hydrogen metallization in heavy ion imploded multi-layered cylindrical targets. These include a density of about 1 g/cm(3), a pressur e of 2-5 Mbar and a temperature of a few 0.1 eV in the compressed hydrogen sample. In this study an intense uranium beam consisting of 10(12) ions hav ing a particle energy of 400 MeV/u is considered. The ions are delivered in a single bunch that has a length of 50 ns. These beam parameters are the d esign parameters for the future 200 Tm synchrotron facility, SIS-200, that will be constructed at the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Dar mstadt.