Comments on the Pressure Dissociation of Deuterium as Related to the Nova Laser Hugoniot

✍ Scribed by Y. Rosenfeld

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 116 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-8025
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3986(200101)41:1<27::aid-ctpp27>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

The recent Nova laser experimental Hugoniot for deuterium can be justified by a simple model which involves only very general properties of this material and which highlights the role of the molecular dissociation. The region of maximal compression along the principal Hugoniot is characterized by

, where E B is the binding energy of a molecule, and ρ o is the initial density.