Published March 3, 1986 | Version v1
Journal article

Explosive recombination of compressed spin-polarized hydrogen

  • 1. Wihuri Physical Laboratory and Department of Physical Sciences, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland

Description

Spin-polarized atomic hydrogen gas has been compressed to densities >1018/cm3 with liquid 4He at temperatures from 0.24 to 0.67 K in magnetic fields up to 7.5 T. We find that the critical pressure, at which recombination ultimately becomes a thermally triggered explosion, goes through a maximum as a function of temperature. The explosion pressure increases with decreasing sample size and with increasing field and nuclear polarization

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Volume
56
Journal Issue
9
Series
Phys. Rev. Lett.
Journal Page Range
941-944
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTA