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Trines, Raoul and Schmitz, Holger and King, Martin and McKenna, Paul and Bingham, Robert (2024) Laser harmonic generation with independent control of frequency and orbital angular momentum. Nature Communications, 15. 6878. ISSN 2041-1723

King, M and Higginson, A and McGuffey, C and Wilson, R and Schaumann, G and Hodge, T and Ohland, J B and Gales, S and Hill, M P and Pitt, S F and Spindloe, C and Danson, C N and Wei, M S and Beg, F N and Roth, M and Neely, D and Gray, R J and McKenna, P (2023) Geometry effects on energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons with open and closed hemisphere-cone targets. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 66 (1). 015001. ISSN 0741-3335

King, Martin and Wilson, Robbie and Bacon, Ewan F. J. and Dolier, Ewan J. and Frazer, Timothy P. and Goodman, Jack and Gray, Ross J. and McKenna, Paul (2023) Perspectives on laser-plasma physics in the relativistic transparency regime. The European Physical Journal A, 59 (6). 132. ISSN 1434-601X

Loughran, B. and Streeter, M. J. V. and Ahmed, H. and Astbury, S. and Balcazar, M. and Borghesi, M. and Bourgeois, N. and Curry, C. B. and Dann, S. J. D. and DiIorio, S. and Dover, N. P. and Dzelzanis, T. and Ettlinger, O. C. and Gauthier, M. and Giuffrida, L. and Glenn, G. D. and Glenzer, S. H. and Green, J. S. and Gray, R. J. and Hicks, G. S. and Hyland, C. and Istokskaia, V. and King, M. and Margarone, D. and McCusker, O. and McKenna, P. and Najmudin, Z. and Parisuaña, C. and Parsons, P. and Spindloe, C. and Symes, D. R. and Thomas, A. G. R. and Treffert, F. and Xu, N. and Palmer, C. A. J. (2023) Automated control and optimization of laser-driven ion acceleration. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11. e35. ISSN 2052-3289

Goodman, J. and King, M. and Dolier, E. J. and Wilson, R. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2023) Optimization and control of synchrotron emission in ultraintense laser-solid interactions using machine learning. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11. e34. ISSN 2052-3289

Xu, N. and Streeter, M. J. V. and Ettlinger, O. C. and Ahmed, H. and Astbury, S. and Borghesi, M. and Bourgeois, N. and Curry, C. B. and Dann, S. J. D. and Dover, N. P. and Dzelzainis, T. and Istokskaia, V. and Gauthier, M. and Giuffrida, L. and Glenn, G. D. and Glenzer, S. H. and Gray, R. J. and Green, J. S. and Hicks, G. S. and Hyland, C. and King, M. and Loughran, B. and Margarone, D. and McCusker, O. and McKenna, P. and Parisuaña, C. and Parsons, P. and Spindloe, C. and Symes, D. R. and Treffert, F. and Palmer, C. A. J. and Najmudin, Z. (2023) Versatile tape-drive target for high-repetition-rate laser-driven proton acceleration. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 11. e23. ISSN 2052-3289

McCusker, O and Ahmed, H and McIlvenny, A and Martin, P and Ferguson, S and Green, J and Jarrett, J and King, M and Zhai, S and McKenna, P and Kar, S and Borghesi, M (2022) Multi-species ion acceleration from sub-ps, PW interactions with ultra-thin foils. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 65 (1). 015005. ISSN 0741-3335

Bacon, E. and King, M. and Wilson, R. and Frazer, T. P. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2022) High order modes of intense second harmonic light produced from a plasma aperture. Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 7 (5). 054401. ISSN 2468-080X

Dolier, E J and King, M and Wilson, R and Gray, R J and McKenna, P (2022) Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in particle-in-cell simulations. New Journal of Physics, 24 (7). 073025. ISSN 1367-2630

Goodman, J and King, M and Wilson, R and Gray, R J and McKenna, P (2022) Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime. New Journal of Physics, 24 (5). 053016. ISSN 1367-2630

Wilson, R. and King, M. and Butler, N. M. H. and Carroll, D. C. and Frazer, T. P. and Duff, M. J. and Higginson, A. and Dance, R. J. and Jarrett, J. and Davidson, Z. E. and Armstrong, C. D. and Liu, H. and Hawkes, S. J. and Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2022) Influence of spatial-intensity contrast in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions. Scientific Reports, 12. 1910. ISSN 2045-2322

Higginson, A and Wilson, R and Goodman, J and King, M and Dance, R J and Butler, N M H and Armstrong, C D and Notley, M and Carroll, D C and Fang, Y and Yuan, X H and Neely, D and Gray, R J and McKenna, P (2021) Influence of target-rear-side short scale length density gradients on laser-driven proton acceleration. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 63 (11). 114001. ISSN 0741-3335

Frazer, T. P. and Wilson, R. and King, M. and Butler, N. M. H. and Carroll, D. C. and Duff, M. J. and Higginson, A. and Jarrett, J. and Davidson, Z. E. and Armstrong, C. and Liu, H. and Neely, D. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2020) Enhanced laser intensity and ion acceleration due to self-focusing in relativistically transparent ultrathin targets. Physical Review Research, 2. 042015. ISSN 2643-1564

Williamson, S.D.R. and Wilson, R. and King, M. and Duff, M. and Gonzalez-Izquierdo, B. and Davidson, Z.E. and Higginson, A. and Booth, N. and Hawkes, S. and Neely, D. and Gray, R.J. and McKenna, P. (2020) Self-referencing spectral interferometric probing of the onset time of relativistic transparency in intense laser-foil interactions. Physical Review Applied, 14 (3). 034018. ISSN 2331-7043

Williamson, S D R and Gray, R J and King, M and Wilson, R and Dance, R J and Armstrong, C and Rusby, D R and Brabetz, C and Wagner, F and Zielbauer, B and Bagnoud, V and Neely, D and McKenna, P (2020) Energy absorption and coupling to electrons in the transition from surface- to volume-dominant intense laser-plasma interaction regimes. New Journal of Physics, 22 (5). 053044. ISSN 1367-2630

Duff, M. J. and Wilson, R. and King, M. and Gonzalez-Izquierdo, B. and Higginson, A. and Williamson, S. D. R. and Davidson, Z. E. and Capdessus, R. and Booth, N. and Hawkes, S. and Neely, D. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2020) High order mode structure of intense light fields generated via a laser-driven relativistic plasma aperture. Scientific Reports, 10. 105. ISSN 2045-2322

Capdessus, Remi and King, Martin and Sorbo, Dario Del and Duff, Matthew and Ridgers, Christopher P. and McKenna, Paul (2019) Erratum : Author correction: Relativistic doppler-boosted γ-rays in high fields (Scientific reports (2018) 8 1 (9155)). Scientific Reports, 9 (1). ISSN 2045-2322

Rusby, D. R. and Armstrong, C. D. and Scott, G. G. and King, M. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. (2019) Effect of rear surface fields on hot, refluxing and escaping electron populations via numerical simulations. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 7. e45. ISSN 2052-3289

King, M. and Butler, N. M. H. and Wilson, R. and Capdessus, R. and Gray, R. J. and Powell, H. and Dance, R. and Padda, H. and Gonzalez-Izquierdo, B. and Rusby, D. R. and Dover, N. P. and Hicks, G. and Ettlinger, O. and Scullion, C. and Carroll, D. C. and Najmudin, Z. and Borghesi, M. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2019) Role of magnetic field evolution on filamentary structure formation in intense laser-foil interactions. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 7. e14. ISSN 2052-3289

Davidson, Z. E. and Gonzalez Izquierdo, B. and Higginson, A. and Lancaster, K. L. and Williamson, S. D. R. and King, M. and Farley, D. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. and Gray, R. J. (2019) An optically multiplexed single-shot time-resolved probe of laser-plasma dynamics. Optics Express, 27 (4). pp. 4416-4423. ISSN 1094-4087

Jarrett, J. and King, M. and Gray, R. J. and Neumann, N. and Dohl, L. and Baird, C. D. and Ebert, T. and Hesse, M. and Tebartz, A. and Rusby, D. R. and Woolsey, N. C. and Neely, D. and Roth, M. and McKenna, P. (2018) Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 7. ISSN 2052-3289

Capdessus, Remi and King, Martin and Del Sorbo, Dario and Duff, Matthew and Ridgers, Christopher P. and McKenna, Paul (2018) Relativistic Doppler-boosted γ-rays in high fields. Scientific Reports, 8. 9155. ISSN 2045-2322

Scott, G. G. and Carroll, D. C. and Astbury, S. and Clarke, R. J. and Hernandez-Gomez, C. and King, M. and Alejo, A. and Arteaga, I. Y. and Dance, R. J. and Higginson, A. and Hook, S. and Liao, G. and Liu, H. and Mirfayzi, S. R. and Rusby, D. R. and Selwood, M. P. and Spindloe, C. and Tolley, M. K. and Wagner, F. and Zemaityte, E. and Borghesi, M. and Kar, S. and Li, Y. and Roth, M. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. (2018) Dual ion species plasma expansion from isotopically layered cryogenic targets. Physical Review Letters, 120 (20). ISSN 1079-7114

Duff, M J and Capdessus, R and Del Sorbo, D and Ridgers, C P and King, M and McKenna, P (2018) Modelling the effects of the radiation reaction force on the interaction of thin foils with ultra-intense laser fields. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60 (6). pp. 1-12. 064006. ISSN 0741-3335

Gray, R J and Wilson, R and King, M and Williamson, S D R and Dance, R J and Armstrong, C and Brabetz, C and Wagner, F and Zielbauer, B and Bagnoud, V and Neely, D and McKenna, P (2018) Enhanced laser-energy coupling to dense plasmas driven by recirculating electron currents. New Journal of Physics, 20. 033021. ISSN 1367-2630

Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Bruno and Capdessus, Remi and King, Martin and Gray, Ross J. and Wilson, Robbie and Dance, Rachel J. and McCreadie, John and Butler, Nicholas M. H. and Hawkes, Steve J. and Green, James and Booth, Nicola and Borghesi, Marco and Neely, David and McKenna, Paul (2018) Radiation pressure-driven plasma surface dynamics in ultra-intense laser pulse interactions with ultra-thin foils. Applied Sciences. pp. 1-18. ISSN 2076-3417

Higginson, A. and Gray, R. J. and King, M. and Dance, R. J. and Williamson, S. D. R. and Butler, N. M. H. and Wilson, R. and Capdessus, R. and Armstrong, C. and Green, J. S. and Hawkes, S. J. and Martin, P. and Wei, W. Q. and Mirfayzi, S. R. and Yuan, X. H. and Kar, S. and Borghesi, M. and Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2018) Near-100 MeV protons via a laser-driven transparency-enhanced hybrid acceleration scheme. Nature Communications, 9. 724. ISSN 2041-1723

Wilson, Robbie and King, Martin and Gray, Ross J. and Carroll, David C. and Dance, Rachel J. and Butler, Nicholas M. H. and Armstrong, Chris and Hawkes, Steve J. and Clarke, Robert J. and Robertson, David J. and Bourgenot, Cyril and Neely, David and McKenna, Paul (2018) Development of focusing plasma mirrors for ultraintense laser-driven particle and radiation sources. Quantum Beam Science, 2.

Ronald, K. and Speirs, D.C. and King, M. and Heelis, T. and McConville, S.L. and Gillespie, K.M. and Bingham, R. and Robertson, C.W. and Cross, A.W. and Phelps, A.D.R. (2017) Laboratory experiments simulating electron cyclotron masers in space. EPJ Web of Conferences, 149. 03015. ISSN 2100-014X

King, M. and Gray, R. J. and Powell, H. W. and Capdessus, R. and McKenna, P. (2016) Energy exchange via multi-species streaming in laser-driven ion acceleration. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 59 (1). pp. 1-7. 014003. ISSN 0741-3335

Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Bruno and Gray, Ross J. and King, Martin and Wilson, Robbie and Dance, Rachel J. and Powell, Haydn and MacLellan, David A. and McCreadie, John and Butler, Nicholas M. H. and Hawkes, Steve and Green, James S. and Murphy, Chris D. and Stockhausen, Luca C. and Carroll, David C. and Booth, Nicola and Scott, Graeme G. and Borghesi, Marco and Neely, David and McKenna, Paul (2016) Influence of laser polarization on collective electron dynamics in ultraintense laser-foil interactions. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 4. e33. ISSN 2052-3289

Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Bruno and King, Martin and Gray, Ross J. and Wilson, Robbie and Dance, Rachel J. and Powell, Haydn and MacLellan, David A. and McCreadie, John and Butler, Nicholas M.H. and Hawkes, Steve and Green, James S. and Murphy, Chris D. and Stockhausen, Luca C. and Carroll, David C. and Booth, Nicola and Scott, Graeme G. and Borghesi, Marco and Neely, David and McKenna, Paul (2016) Towards optical polarization control of laser-driven proton acceleration in foils undergoing relativistic transparency. Nature Communications, 7. 12891. ISSN 2041-1723

King, M. and Gray, R.J. and Powell, H.W. and Maclellan, D.A. and Izquierdo, Bruno and Stockhausen, L.C. and Hicks, G.S. and Dover, N.P. and Rusby, D.R. and Carroll, D.C. and Padda, H. and Torres, R. and Kar, S. and Clarke, R.J. and Musgrave, I.O. and Najmudin, Z. and Borghesi, M. and Neely, D. and Mckenna, P. (2016) Ion acceleration and plasma jet formation in ultra-thin foils undergoing expansion and relativistic transparency. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 829. pp. 163-166. ISSN 0168-9002

Capdessus, R. and King, M. and McKenna, P. (2016) Radiating electron source generation in ultraintense laser-foil interactions. Physics of Plasmas, 23 (8). 083117. ISSN 1070-664X

Padda, H. and King, M. and Gray, R. J. and Powell, H. W. and Izquierdo, Bruno and Stockhausen, L. C. and Wilson, R. and Carroll, D. C. and Dance, R. J. and MacLellan, D. A. and Yuan, X. H. and Butler, N. M. H. and Capdessus, R. and Borghesi, M. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2016) Intra-pulse transition between ion acceleration mechanisms in intense laser-foil interactions. Physics of Plasmas, 23 (6). 063116. ISSN 1070-664X

Wilson, R. and King, M. and Gray, R. J. and Carroll, D. C. and Dance, R. J. and Armstrong, C. and Hawkes, S. J. and Clarke, R. J. and Robertson, D. J. and Neely, D. and Mckenna, P. (2016) Ellipsoidal plasma mirror focusing of high power laser pulses to ultra-high intensities. Physics of Plasmas, 23 (3). 033106. ISSN 1070-664X

Gonzalez-Izquierdo, Bruno and Gray, Ross J. and King, Martin and Dance, Rachel J. and Wilson, Robbie and McCreadie, John and Butler, Nicholas M. H. and Capdessus, Remi and Hawkes, Steve and Green, James S. and Borghesi, Marco and Neely, David and McKenna, Paul (2016) Optically controlled dense current structures driven by relativistic plasma aperture-induced diffraction. Nature Physics, 12. pp. 505-512. ISSN 1745-2473

Powell, H W and King, M and Gray, R J and MacLellan, D A and Izquierdo, Bruno and Stockhausen, L C and Hicks, G and Dover, N P and Rusby, D R and Carroll, D C and Padda, H and Torres, R and Kar, S and Clarke, R J and Musgrave, I O and Najmudin, Z. and Borghesi, M and Neely, D and McKenna, P (2015) Proton acceleration enhanced by a plasma jet in expanding foils undergoing relativistic transparency. New Journal of Physics, 17. 103033. ISSN 1367-2630

McConville, S. L. and Ronald, K. and Speirs, D. C. and Gillespie, K. M. and Phelps, A. D R and Cross, A. W. and Bingham, R. and Robertson, C. W. and Whyte, C. G. and He, W. and King, M. and Bryson, R. and Vorgul, I. and Cairns, R. A. and Kellett, B. J. (2014) Scaled experiment to investigate auroral kilometric radiation mechanisms in the presence of background electrons. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 511 (1). 012061. ISSN 1742-6588

King, M. and Bryson, Ross and Ronald, K. and Cairns, R. Alan and McConville, S.L. and Speirs, D.C. and Phelps, A.D.R. and Bingham, R. and Gillespie, K.M. and Cross, A.W. and Vorgul, Irena and Trines, Raoul (2014) Progress towards numerical and experimental simulations of fusion relevant beam instabilities. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 511 (1). pp. 1-5. 012047. ISSN 1742-6588

Book Section

Duff, M. J. and Capdessus, R. and King, M. and Del Sorbo, D. and Ridgers, C. P. and McKenna, P.; Korn, Georg and Silva, Luis O., eds. (2017) Modelling the effect of the radiation reaction force on the acceleration of ultra-thin foils. In: Proc. SPIE 10241, Research Using Extreme Light. Proceedings of SPIE . SPIE, Bellingham, WA.

King, M. and Speirs, D.C. and Heelis, T. and Bingham, R. and Whyte, C.G. and Robertson, C.W. and Phelps, A.D.R. and Koepke, M.E. and McConville, S.L. and Cairns, R.A. and Vorgul, I. and Ronald, K.; (2015) 2D simulations and experiments on streaming instabilities in a Penning discharge. In: 42nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, 22nd—26th June 2015. European Physical Society, PRT. ISBN 2914771983

King, M. and Speirs, D. C. and Bingham, R. and McConville, S. L. and Bryson, R. and Gillespie, K. M. and Phelps, A. D R and Cross, A. W. and Whyte, C. G. and Cairns, R. A. and Vorgul, I. and Trines, R. M. G. M. and Ronald, K.; Naulin, V. and Angioni, C. and Borghesi, M. and Ratynskaia, S. and Poedts, S. and Donné, T. and Kurki-Suonio, T. and Äkäslompolo, S. and Hakola, A. and Airila, M., eds. (2013) Computational and experimental study of beam-plasma instabilities relevant to fast-ignition inertial confinement fusion. In: 40th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2013. Europhysics Conference Abstract, 1 . European Physical Society (EPS), FIN, pp. 533-536. ISBN 9782914771849

Bryson, R. and Speirs, D. C. and King, M. and Vorgul, I. and Cairns, R. A. and Phelps, A. D. R. and Bingham, R. and McConville, S. L. and Gillespie, K. M. and Ronald, K.; Naulin, V. and Angioni, C. and Borghesi, M. and Ratynskaia, S. and Poedts, S. and Donné, T. and Kurki-Suonio, T. and Äkäslompolo, S. and Hakola, A. and Airila, M., eds. (2013) Modelling of the anomalous Doppler resonance for a laboratory experiment. In: 40th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, EPS 2013. Europhysics Conference Abstracts, 2 . European Physical Society (EPS), FIN, pp. 1590-1593. ISBN 9782914771849