Potential of FAIR at Darmstadt and LHC at CERN for High Energy Density Physics Research: the HEDgeHOB Collaboration

Substantial progress in the development of technology of high quality, well focused, strongly bunched intense partile beams have led to development of a novel, very efficient technique of studying High Energy Density Matter (HEDM) in the laboratory. This method involves generation of large samples of HEDM by isochoric and uniform heating of solid targets by these ion beams. Two huge accelerator projects are on the way in Europe. One is the Facility for Antiiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR), at Darmstadt and the other is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Extensive theoretical work has been carried out over the past years to assess the potential of these accelerators to generate HEDM and several experimental schemes have been proposed [1-4]. A brief overview of this work is presented in this talk. [1] N.A. Tahir et al., PRL 95 (2005) 035001. [2] N.A. Tahir et al., PRL 94 (2005) 135004. [3] N.A. Tahir et al., Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 577 (2007) 238. [4] N.A. tahir et al., PRE 79 (2009) in print.