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Structure of a One-Component Plasma in an External Field: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Particle Arrangement in a Heavy-Ion Storage Ring

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A one-component plasma has been studied by molecular dynamics calculations to simulate the behavior of charged particles in heavy-ion storage rings. The Hamiltonian used confines the plasma in the directions lateral to the direction of travel in the ring in the frame of reference which is moving with the beam. The results show an unexpected stratification of density in the lateral direction, and a tendency towards a first-neighbor coordination of 14(8+6) seems incipient. On each shell we observe a triangular pattern of particle arrangement.

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  1. Supercomputer Institute and School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    A. Rahman

  2. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, 60439, USA

    J. P. Schiffer

  3. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    J. P. Schiffer

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  1. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

    P. Vashishta  & Rajiv K. Kalia  & 

  2. University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, UK

    R. F. Bishop

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Rahman, A., Schiffer, J.P. (1987). Structure of a One-Component Plasma in an External Field: A Molecular Dynamics Study of Particle Arrangement in a Heavy-Ion Storage Ring. In: Vashishta, P., Kalia, R.K., Bishop, R.F. (eds) Condensed Matter Theories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0917-8_5

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