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

TLDR

High‑energy‑density states are crucial across physics, and intense heavy‑ion beams at GSI’s SIS18 and the forthcoming SIS100 at FAIR enable large, uniform laboratory samples of such matter. This Letter investigates, using two‑dimensional numerical simulations, the potential of FAIR to conduct research on high‑energy‑density states in matter. The authors employ two‑dimensional numerical simulations to assess FAIR’s capability for high‑energy‑density matter research.

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.