Warm Dense Matter experiments LCLS free electron laser

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Warm dense matter is an emerging field of study that has a small base within the UK. Many of the experiments proposed or carried out require access to large facilities such as large lasers. In order to maximise the chances of first class work coming from the UK it is necessary for researchers to access world leading facilities. To this end the PI has been active in forming a partnership with academics fro the US and EU to use new facilities such as the FLASH free electron facility in DESY Hamburg. This has led to leading publications in Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters. Now the applicant is a co-investigator on an experiment using the X-ray free electron laser in Stanford. This is a unique world facility that has a brightness 10 orders of magnitude greater than any other keV X-ray source. The potential for world leading research using such unique facilities is undoubted. As part of our contribution to the collaboration we will supply three personnel to the experiment which has 5 shifts in early December 2010. We will be on site for 2 weeks in order to allow careful preparation for the precious beamtime. We would like to ask for some financial support as it is a heavy burden for other available sources and yet the possible benefits to UK involvement with this machine are great.