High-pressure chemistry of hydrocarbons relevant to planetary interiors and inertial confinement fusion
Abstract
Diamond formation in polystyrene (C8H8)n, which is laser-compressed and heated to conditions around 150 GPa and 5000 K, has recently been demonstrated in the laboratory [Kraus et al., Nat. Astron. 1, 606–611 (2017)]. Here, we show an extended analysis and comparison to first-principles simulations of the acquired data and their implications for planetary physics and inertial confinement fusion. Moreover, we discuss the advanced diagnostic capabilities of adding high-quality small angle X-ray scattering and spectrally resolved X-ray scattering to the platform, which shows great prospects of precisely studying the kinetics of chemical reactions in dense plasma environments at pressures exceeding 100 GPa.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1063/1.5017908
Entities
People
- A. J. Mackinnon
- A. K. Schuster
- A. Pak
- A. Pelka
- A. Ravasio
- A. Zettl
- Alejandro Laso Garcia
- Alison Saunders
- D. O. Gericke
- Dominik Kraus
- E. Cunningham
- E. Galtier
- E. Granados
- E. J. Gamboa
- Emma Elizabeth Mcbride
- H. J. Lee
- I. Nam
- I. Prencipe
- J. Vorberger
- K. Rohatsch
- L. B. Fletcher
- M. Rödel
- M. Schölmerich
- M. Schörner
- Michael Macdonald
- Nicholas Hartley
- P. Neumayer
- Peihao Sun
- Philip Heimann
- R. W. Falcone
- Ronald Redmer
- S. Frydrych
- S. J. Turner
- Shaughnessy Brennan Brown
- Siegfried Glenzer
- T. Döppner
- Thomas E. Cowan
- Tim B Van Driel
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- European XFEL
- Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
- German Research Foundation
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Osaka University
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- United States Department of Energy
- University of Michigan
- University of Rostock
- University of Warwick