High energy density physics effects predicted in simulations of the CERN HiRadMat beam-target interaction experiments

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• 作者：N.A. Tahir^a ; ^{n.tahir@gsi.de} ; ; F. Burkart^b ; R. Schmidt^b ; A. Shutov^c ; D. Wollmann^b ; A.R. Piriz^d
• 关键词：Beam-target heating ; High energy density physics ; Strongly coupled plasmas ; Hydrodynamic tunneling
• 刊名：High Energy Density Physics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：21
• 期：Complete
• 页码：27-34
• 全文大小：1964 K
• 卷排序：21

文摘

Experiments have been done at the CERN HiRadMat (High Radiation to Materials) facility in which large cylindrical copper targets were irradiated with 440 GeV proton beam generated by the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The primary purpose of these experiments was to confirm the existence of hydrodynamic tunneling of ultra-relativistic protons and their hadronic shower in solid materials, that was predicted by previous numerical simulations. The experimental measurements have shown very good agreement with the simulation results. This provides confidence in our simulations of the interaction of the 7 TeV LHC (Large Hadron Collider) protons and the 50 TeV Future Circular Collider (FCC) protons with solid materials, respectively. This work is important from the machine protection point of view.The numerical simulations have also shown that in the HiRadMat experiments, a significant part of thetarget material is be converted into different phases of High Energy Density (HED) matter, including two–phase solid–liquid mixture, expanded as well as compressed hot liquid phases, two–phase liquid–gas mixture and gaseous state. The HiRadMat facility is therefore a unique ion beam facility worldwide that is currently available for studying the thermophysical properties of HED matter. In the present paper we discuss the numerical simulation results and present a comparison with the experimental measurements.