Possibility of Achieving a Condensed Crystalline State in Cooled Particle BEAMS

摘要

Calculations have shown that when a plasma of one kind of particle (one-component plasma or OCP) is below a certain temperature, it will undergo a phase transition and the particles will form a crystalline (bcc) array. The relevant parameter is GAMMA = (q sup 2 /a)kT (where a is the average spacing and T the temperature) and the transition takes place at GAMMA = 170. the properties of proposed storage rings for heavy ions with q >> e, are such that an ordered array may actually be realized. (ERA citation 11:048353)