Equation of State Measurements of Deuterium up to 2 Mbar

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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While the hydrogen Equation of State at high density and temperature is integral to many astrophysical and planetary models, few experimental techniques can access the strongly-coupled region where molecular dissociation or electronic excitation occur. High power lasers can access much of this unexplored phase space. We(This work was done in collaboration with L. B. Da Silva, P. Celliers, K. S. Budil, R. Cauble, N. C. Holmes, T. W. Barbee Jr, B. A. Hammel, J. D. Kilkenny, R. J. Wallace, M. Ross, A. Ng and G. Chiu.) present the pressure (from 0.25 to 2.1 Mbar) and density on the first Hugoniot, derived from shock speed, particle speed, and compression measurements of liquid deuterium. Shock waves were produced with the Nova laser. The data show a significant increase in compressibility near 1 Mbar compared to existing widely-used equation of state models. The data are consistent with a thermal molecular dissociation of the diatomic fluid into a monatomic phase.

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