Production of diamond using intense heavy ion beams at the FAIR facility and application to planetary physics

Abstract Diamonds are supposedly abundantly present in different objects in the Universe including meteorites, carbon-rich stars as well as carbon-rich extrasolar planets. Moreover, the prediction that in deep layers of Uranus and Neptune, methane may undergo a process of phase separation into diamo...

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Main Authors: Naeem Ahmad Tahir, Vincent Bagnoud, Paul Neumayer, Antonio Roberto Piriz, Sofia Ayelen Piriz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-01-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28709-7