Qualitative Properties of Muonic Hydrogen Metals

P. McKenna; D. John Pastine

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.1508

Qualitative Properties of Muonic Hydrogen Metals

P. McKenna and D. John Pastine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 1508 – Published 29 December 1969

Abstract

We calculate qualitatively the cohesive energy and density of metals which theoretically should condense in high-pressure systems containing high concentrations of muons and various isotopes of hydrogen. The resulting metallic forms are found to be thermally superstable suggesting that they may perhaps exist briefly and in small quantities in some stellar environments.

Received 3 November 1969

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.1508

Authors & Affiliations

P. McKenna^* and D. John Pastine

U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

^*Guest of the U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory and participant in the summer research participation program for high school students of the National Science Foundation. Also participant in the guided research portion of the supplementary educational program of "The Heights," Washington, D. C.