We conduct state-of-the-art experiments to study the properties of matter at high energy density (>1Mbar), as found in astrophysical objects such as giant gas planets. These states of matter can be produced in the laboratory using high-intensity drivers (lasers, ion beams), by a variety of techniques (shock compression, heating with intense ion beams, laser-generated x-rays and particles). Characterization of the plasmas uses advanced techniques such as x-ray radiography, x-ray diffraction, x-ray Thomson scattering, inner-shell and bremsstrahlung spectroscopy.
Our experiments are conducted at large scale facilities, including GSI's intense heavy ion beam accelerator, the high-energy short-pulse laser PHELIX at GSI, the free-electron laser FLASH at DESY and the Petawatt laser Titan in Livermore, California.
Anfangsdatum: 25. September 2011
geschätzte Dauer: 3 years
Bezahlung: The position is supported with a stipend.
Veröffentlichungen:
A. L. Kritcher et al., Science 322, 69 (2008)
P. Neumayer et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 075003 (2010)
P. Neumayer et al., High Energy Dens. Phys. 5, 244 (2009)
The position is supported with a stipend. Structured PhD education is integrated in the Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research HGS-HIRe (http://hgs-hire.de).
The ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI at GSI has been established within the Helmholtz
Alliance “Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory”. EMMI provides a world-wide network
for interdisciplinary investigation of matter under extreme conditions – from
extremely hot matter of the early universe to ultra cold quantum gases.
Information about EMMI is available at http://www.gsi.de/emmi.