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1. Background and context to warm dense matter -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Features of warm dense matter -- 1.3. Effects of warm dense matter on electronic structure -- 1.4. Equations of state for warm dense matter -- 1.5. Creating and probing warm dense matter

2. Shock and ramp compression -- 2.1. General background -- 2.2. Directly driven shocks with intense lasers -- 2.3. X-ray driven shocks -- 2.4. Ion beam driven shocks -- 2.5. Flyer plate methods -- 2.6. Impedance matching -- 2.7. Diamond anvil cells

3. Volumetric heating of warm dense matter -- 3.1. X-ray heating -- 3.2. Proton and heavy ion heating -- 3.3. Fast electron heating

4. X-ray diagnostics -- 4.1. X-ray dispersion and detection -- 4.2. X-ray scattering -- 4.3. X-ray absorption measurements -- 4.4. X-ray phase contrast imaging -- 4.5. X-ray emission spectroscopy

5. Optical diagnostics -- 5.1. Streak cameras -- 5.2. Optical pyrometry measurements -- 5.3. VISAR measurements -- 5.4. Frequency domain interferometry -- 5.5. Reflectivity measurements

6. Facilities for warm dense matter research -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Laser facilities -- 6.3. X-ray free electron laser facilities -- 6.4. Ion beam facilities -- 6.5. Z-pinch facilities -- 6.6. Summary.

This book provides an introductory overview of warm dense matter research for new postgraduate students entering the field. Author David Riley, based at the Centre for Plasma Physics at Queen's University Belfast, covers a broad range of topics with an emphasis on experimental techniques. The text begins with an introduction to the basic physics of warm dense matter and its important features, then moves on to discuss the principal techniques for creating warm dense matter and approaches to diagnosing it. Topics covered include the generation of warm dense matter via laser driven shocks and X-ray sources, explosives, gas guns and ion beams, as well as X-ray free electron lasers. Principal optical and X-ray diagnostics are also discussed. The book concludes with an overview of the large-scale facilities that are most commonly used for warm dense matter research and the technologies they employ. Part of IOP Series in Plasma Physics.

PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in high energy plasma physics.

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Professor David Riley graduated with a BSc in physics from the University of Durham in 1984 and with a PhD from Imperial College, University of London in 1989. He has worked at Queen's University Belfast since 1994 and has authored or co-authored over 130 research papers in the general area of laser generated plasmas with many focussing on warm dense matter. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2011.

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