Abstract
During the past decade, substantial progress has been made in the technology of highly focused, strongly bunched intense beams of energetic ions. These developments have lead to a new concept of studying high energy density (HED) states in matter by isochoric and uniform heating of samples of matter by these intense particle beams. Existing accelerator facilities and those planned for the future, make the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, a unique laboratory worldwide to carry out novel studies in this important field of research. Over the past few years, extensive theoretical work has been carried out to design novel experiments to study the thermophysical properties of HED matter. An overview of this work is presented in this paper highlighting the salient features of this new approach.
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