Challenges and opportunities for collaborations in High Energy Density Physics

According to the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences „The time is highly opportune ... to develop a fundamental understanding of the physics of high energy density plasmas. Recent advances in extending the energy, power and brightness of lasers, particle beams, and Z-pinch generators make it possible to create matter with extremely high energy density in the laboratory. The collective interaction of this matter with itself, particle beams, and radiation fields is a rich, expanding field of physics called high energy density physics. It is a field characterized by extreme states of matter previously unattainable in laboratory experiments” [1].