Employing a two-dimensional simulation model, this paper presents a suitable design for an experiment to study metallization of hydrogen in a heavy-ion beam imploded multilayered cylindrical target that contains a layer of frozen hydrogen. Such an experiment will be carried out at the upgraded heavy-ion synchrotron facility (SIS-18) at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt by the end of the year 2001. In these calculations we consider a uranium beam that will be available at the upgraded SIS-18. Our calculations show that it may be possible to achieve theoretically predicted physical conditions necessary to create metallic hydrogen in such experiments. These include a density of about 1 ${\mathrm{g}/\mathrm{c}\mathrm{m}}^3$, a pressure of 3–5 Mbar, and a temperature of a few 0.1 eV.

• Received 12 May 2000

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016402