New Center Will Study Matter at Atom-Crushing Densities (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

New Center Will Study Matter at Atom-Crushing Densities

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The Shock Compression Lab at UC Davis uses high-velocity cannon to simulate the pressures of planet formation. The lab's director, Professor Sarah T. Stewart, is co-principal investigator for the new NSF-funded Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures which will probe the physics and astrophysical implications of matter under pressures so high that the structure of individual atoms is disrupted.

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