Warm Dense Matter experiments LCLS free electron laser

热致密物质是一个新兴的研究领域，在英国只有一个很小的基础。许多提议或进行的实验都需要使用大型设备，如大型激光设备。为了最大限度地增加来自英国的一流工作的机会，研究人员有必要访问世界领先的设施。为此，国际和平研究所一直积极与美国和欧盟的学者建立合作伙伴关系，以使用新的设施，如位于德国汉堡的闪光自由电子设施。这导致了在《自然物理学》和《物理评论快报》上的主要出版物。现在，申请者是斯坦福大学一项使用X射线自由电子激光的实验的联合研究员。这是一个独一无二的世界设施，其亮度比任何其他kev X射线源都大10个数量级。使用这种独特的设施进行世界领先的研究的潜力是毋庸置疑的。作为我们对合作的贡献的一部分，我们将为实验提供三名人员，实验将于2010年12月初进行5次轮班。我们将在现场停留两周，以便为宝贵的光束时间做好仔细的准备。我们希望获得一些财政支持，因为这对其他可用的来源来说是一个沉重的负担，但英国参与这台机器可能会带来很大的好处。

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.