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Melone, Joseph and Ledingham, Kenneth and McCanny, Thomas and Burriss-Mog, T and Schramm, Ulrich and Grötzschel, R and Akhmadaliev, S and Hanf, D and Spohr, Klaus M. and Bussmann, M and Cowan, T and Wiggins, Mark and Mitchell, Martin (2012) Characterisation of permanent magnetic quadrupoles for focussing proton beams. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 676. pp. 126-134. ISSN 0168-9002

Alic, T. Y. and Kilic, H. S. and Durmus, H. and Dogan, M. and Ledingham, K. W. D. (2012) A mass spectrometric investigation of isomers of butane. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 26 (8). pp. 893-905. ISSN 0951-4198

Ledingham, Kenneth and Galster, Wilfried (2010) Laser-driven particle and photon beams and some applications. New Journal of Physics, 12 (April). 045005. ISSN 1367-2630

Spohr, K M and Shaw, M and Galster, W and Ledingham, K W D and Robson, L and Yang, J M and McKenna, P and McCanny, T and Melone, J J and Amthor, K-U and Ewald, F and Liesfeld, B and Schwoerer, H and Sauerbrey, R (2008) Study of photo-proton reactions driven by bremsstrahlung radiation of high-intensity laser generated electrons. New Journal of Physics, 10. 043037. ISSN 1367-2630

Pfotenhauer, S.M. and Jäckel, O. and Sachtleben, A. and Polz, J. and Ziegler, W. and Schlenvoigt, H.P. and Amthor, K.U. and Kaluza, M. C. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Sauerbrey, R. and Gibbon, P. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Schwoerer, H. (2008) Spectral shaping of laser generated proton beams. New Journal of Physics, 10. 033034. ISSN 1367-2630

McKenna, P. and Lindau, F. and Lundh, O. and Carroll, D.C. and Clarke, R.J. and Ledingham, K.W.D. (2007) Low-and medium-mass ion acceleration driven by petawatt laser plasma interactions. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 49 (12B). B223-B231. ISSN 0741-3335

Ledingham, K. W. D. and Galster, W. and Sauerbrey, R. (2007) Laser-driven proton oncology : A unique new cancer therapy? British Journal of Radiology, 80 (959). pp. 855-858. ISSN 0007-1285

McKenna, P. and Carroll, D. C. and Clarke, R. J. and Evans, R. G. and Ledingham, K. W. D. and Lindau, F. and Lundh, O. and McCanny, T. and Neely, D. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Robson, L. and Simpson, P. T. and Wahlstrom, C. -G. and Zepf, M. (2007) Lateral electron transport in high-intensity laser-irradiated foils diagnosed by ion emission. Physical Review Letters, 98 (14). p. 145001. ISSN 1079-7114

Robson, L. and Simpson, P.T. and Clarke, R.J. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Lindau, F. and Lundh, O. and McCanny, T. and Mora, P. and Neely, D. and Wahlström, C.G. and Zepf, M. and McKenna, P. (2007) Scaling of proton acceleration driven by petawatt-laser-plasma interactions. Nature Physics, 3. pp. 58-62. ISSN 1745-2473

Spohr, Klaus M. and Chapman, Robert and Hanvey, Scott and Ledingham, Ken and McCanny, Tom and McKenna, Paul and Robson, Lynne and Shaw, Martin (2006) The quest for laser induced isomer production. Journal of Modern Optics, 53 (16-17). pp. 2633-2640. ISSN 1362-3044

Clarke, R. J. and Ledingham, K. W. D. and McKenna, P. and Robson, L. and McCanny, T. and Neely, D. and Lundh, O. and Lindau, F. and Wahlstrom, C. -G. and Simpson, P. T. and Zepf, M. (2006) Detection of short lived radioisotopes as a fast diagnostic for intense laser-solid interactions. Applied Physics Letters, 89 (14). p. 141117. ISSN 0003-6951

Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and Edwards, R. D. and Wright, P. N. M. and Ledingham, K. W. D. and Heathcote, R. and McKenna, P. and Danson, C. N. and Brummitt, P. A. and Collier, J. L. and Hatton, P. E. and Hawkes, S. J. and Hernandez-Gomez, C. and Holligan, P. and Hutchinson, M. H. R. and Kidd, A. K. and Lester, W. J. and Neville, D. R. and Norreys, P. A. and Pepler, D. A. and Winstone, T. B. and Wyatt, R. W. W. and Wyborn, B. E. (2006) Radiological characterisation of photon radiation from ultra-high-intensity laser-plasma and nuclear interactions. Journal of Radiological protection, 26 (3). pp. 277-286. ISSN 0952-4746

Ledingham, K. W. D. (2006) A vision for laser induced particle acceleration and applications. Hyperfine Interactions, 171 (1-3). pp. 69-81. ISSN 0304-3843

Robson, L. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Gillies, J.M. and Zweit, J.; Schwoerer, Heinrich and Beleites, Burgard and Magill, Joseph, eds. (2006) High-power laser production of PET isotopes. In: Lasers and Nuclei. Lecture Notes in Physics . Springer, Berlin, pp. 191-203. ISBN 9783540302711

Schwoerer, H. and Pfotenhauer, S. and Jäckel, O. and Amthor, K.U. and Liesfeld, B. and Ziegler, W. and Sauerbrey, R. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Esirkepov, T. (2006) Laser-plasma acceleration of quasi-monoenergetic protons from microsctructured targets. Nature, 439 (7075). pp. 445-448. ISSN 0028-0836

Ledingham, Kenneth (2006) Desktop accelerators - Going up? Nature Physics, 2 (1). pp. 11-12. ISSN 1745-2473

Kosmidis, C. and Kaziannis, S. and Siozos, P. and Lyras, A. and Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and Jaroszynski, D.A. (2006) Molecular hydrogen ion elimination from alkyl iodides under strong laser beam irradiation. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 248 (1-2). pp. 1-8. ISSN 1387-3806

Brambrink, E. and Audebert, P. and Blazevic, A. and Clarke, R. and Cobble, J. and Cowan, T. E. and Fernandez, J. and Fuchs, J. and Geißel, M. and Hegelich, M. and Karsch, S. and McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. and Roth, M. and Ruhl, H. and Schlegel, T. and Schreiber, J.; (2005) Detailed studies of the transverse beam characteristics of laser produced ion beams. In: 32nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics 2005, EPS 2005, Held with the 8th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets - Europhysics Conference Abstracts. European Physical Society (EPS), ESP. ISBN 291477124X

Roth, M. and Brambrink, E. and Audebert, P. and Basko, M. and Blazevic, A. and Clarke, R. and Cobble, J. and Cowan, T.E. and Fernandez, J. and Fuchs, J. and Hegelich, M. and Ledingham, Kenneth and Logan, L.G. and Neely, D. and Ruhl, H. and Schollmeier, M. (2005) Laser accelerated ions in ICF research prospects and experiments. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 47 (12B). B841-B850. ISSN 0741-3335

Ledingham, Kenneth (2005) Laser induced nuclear physics and applications. Nuclear Physics A, 752. pp. 633-644. ISSN 0375-9474

Roth, M. and Brambrink, E. and Audebert, P. and Blazevic, A. and Clarke, R. and Cobble, J. and Cowan, T.E. and Fernandez, J. and Fuchs, J. and Geissel, M. and Habs, D. and Hegelich, M. and Karsch, S. and Ledingham, Kenneth and Neely, D. and Ruhl, H. and Schlegel, T. and Schreiber, J. (2005) Laser accelerated ions and electron transport in ultra-intense laser matter interaction. Laser and Particle Beams, 23 (1). pp. 95-100. ISSN 0263-0346

McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Shimizu, S. and Yang, J.M. and Robson, L. and McCanny, T. and Galy, J. and Magill, J. and Clarke, R.J. and Neely, D. and Norreys, P.A. and Singhal, R.P. and Krushelnick, K. and Wei, M.S. (2005) Broad energy spectrum of Laser-accelerated protons for spallation-related physics. Physical Review Letters, 94 (8). 084801-1. ISSN 1079-7114

Kosmidis, C. and Siozos, P. and Kaziannis, S. and Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and Jaroszynski, D.A. (2005) Interaction mechanism of some alkyl iodides with femtosecond laser pulses. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 109 (7). pp. 1279-1285. ISSN 1089-5639

Robson, Lynne and Ledingham, Kenneth W.D. and McKenna, Paul and McCanny, Thomas and Shimizu, Seiji and Yang, Jiamin M. and Wahlström, Claes-Göran and Lopez-Martens, Rodrigo and Varju, Katalin and Johnsson, Per and Mauritsson, Johan (2005) Volumetric intensity dependence on the formation of molecular and atomic ions within a high intensity laser focus. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 16 (1). pp. 82-89. ISSN 1044-0305

Roth, M. and Blazevic, A. and Brambrink, E. and Geissel, M. and Cowan, T.E. and Fuchs, J. and Kemp, A. and Ruhl, H. and Audebert, P. and Cobble, J. and Fernandez, J. and Hegelich, M. and Letzring, S. and Ledingham, K. and McKenna, Paul and Clarke, R. and Neely, D and Karsch, S. and Habs, D. and Schreiber, J. (2005) Laser accelerated, high quality ion beams. Hyperfine Interactions, 162 (1-4). pp. 45-53. ISSN 0304-3843

Yang, J. M. and McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McCanny, T. and Robson, L. and Shimizu, S. and Singhal, R. P. and Wei, M. S. and Krushelnick, K. and Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and Norreys, P. A. (2004) Neutron production by fast protons from ultraintense laser-plasma interactions. Journal of Applied Physics, 96 (11). pp. 6912-6918. ISSN 0021-8979

Wei, M. S. and Beg, F. N. and Clark, E. L. and Dangor, A. E. and Evans, R. G. and Gopal, A. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and Norreys, P. A. and Tatarakis, M. and Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K. (2004) Observations of the filamentation of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 70 (5). 056412. ISSN 2470-0053

McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and Yang, J. M. and Robson, L. and McCanny, T. and Shimizu, S. and Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and Spohr, K. and Chapman, R. and Singhal, R. P. and Krushelnick, K. and Wei, M. S. and Norreys, P. A. (2004) Characterization of proton and heavier ion acceleration in ultrahigh-intensity laser interactions with heated target foils. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 70 (3). 036405. ISSN 2470-0053

Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Shimizu, S. and Yang, J.M. and Robson, L. and Zweit, J. and Gillies, J.M. and Bailey, J. and Chimon, G.N. and Clarke, R.J. and Neely, D. and Norreys, P.A. and Collier, J.L. and Singhal, R.P. and Wei, M.S. and Mangles, S.P.D. and Nilson, P. and Krushelnick, K. and Zepf, M. (2004) High power laser production of short-lived isotopes for positron emission tomography. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 37 (16). pp. 2341-2345. ISSN 1361-6463

Lancaster, K. L. and Karsch, S. and Habara, H. and Beg, F. N. and Clark, E. L. and Freeman, R. and Key, M. H. and King, J. A. and Kodama, R. and Krushelnick, K. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and Murphy, C. D. and Norreys, P. A. and Stephens, R. and Stöeckl, C. and Toyama, Y. and Wei, M. S. and Zepf, M. (2004) Characterization of 7Li(p, n) 7Be neutron yields from laser produced ion beams for fast neutron radiography. Physics of Plasmas, 11 (7). pp. 3404-3408. ISSN 1070-664X

Beg, F. N. and Wei, M. S. and Clark, E. L. and Dangor, A. E. and Evans, R. G. and Gibbon, P. and Gopal, A. and Lancaster, K. L. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and Norreys, P. A. and Tatarakis, M. and Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K. (2004) Return current and proton emission from short pulse laser interactions with wire targets. Physics of Plasmas, 11 (5 PART). pp. 2806-2813. ISSN 1070-664X

Beg, F. N. and Wei, M. S. and Dangor, A. E. and Gopal, A. and Tatarakis, M. and Krushelnick, K. and Gibbon, P. and Clark, E. L. and Evans, R. G. and Lancaster, K. L. and Norreys, P. A. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and Zepf, M. (2004) Target charging effects on proton acceleration during high-intensity short-pulse laser-solid interactions. Applied Physics Letters, 84 (15). pp. 2766-2768. ISSN 0003-6951

Beg, F.N. and Clark, E.L. and Wei, M.S. and Dangor, A.E. and Evans, R.G. and Gopal, A. and Lancaster, K.L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and Norreys, P.A. and Tatarakis, M. and Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K. (2004) High-intensity-laser-driven Z pinches. Physical Review Letters, 92 (9). 095001-1. ISSN 1079-7114

Yang, J. M. and McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McCanny, T. and Shimizu, S. and Robson, L. and Clarke, R. J. and Neely, D. and Norreys, P. A. and Wei, M. S. and Krushelnick, K. and Nilson, P. and Mangles, S. P.D. and Singhal, R. P. (2004) Nuclear reactions in copper induced by protons from a petawatt laser-foil interaction. Applied Physics Letters, 84 (5). pp. 675-677. ISSN 0003-6951

Fritzler, S. and Malka, V. and Grillon, G. and Rousseau, J. P. and Burgy, F. and Lefebvre, E. and D'Humières, E. and McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. W.D. (2003) Proton beams generated with high-intensity lasers : applications to medical isotope production. Applied Physics Letters, 83 (15). pp. 3039-3041. ISSN 0003-6951

McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McCanny, T. and Singhal, R.P. and Spencer, I. and Clark, E.L. and Beg, F.N. and Krushelnick, K. and Wei, M.S. and Galy, J. and Magill, J. and Clarke, R.J. and Lancaster, K.L. and Norreys, P.A. and Spohr, K. and Chapman, R. (2003) Effect of target heating on ion-induced reactions in high-intensity laser-plasma interaction. Applied Physics Letters, 83 (14). pp. 2763-2765. ISSN 0003-6951

Ledingham, K.W.D. and Magill, J. and McKenna, P. and Yang, J. and Galy, J. and Schenkel, R. and Rebizant, J. and McCanny, T. and Shimizu, S. and Robson, L. and Singhal, R.P. and Wei, M.S. and Mangles, S.P.D. and Nilson, P. and Krushelnick, K. and Clarke, R.J. and Norreys, P.A. (2003) Laser-driven photo-transmutation of 129I - a long-lived nuclear waste product. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 36 (18). L79-L82. ISSN 1361-6463

McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McCanny, T. and Singhal, R.P. and Spencer, I. and Santala, M.I.K. and Beg, F.N. and Krushelnick, K. and Tatarakis, M. and Wei, M.S. and Clark, E.L. and Clarke, R.J. and Lancaster, K.L. and Norreys, P.A. and Spohr, K. and Chapman, R. and Zepf, M. (2003) Demonstration of fusion-evaporation and direct-interaction nuclear reactions using high-intensity laser-plasma-accelerated ion beams. Physical Review Letters, 91 (7). 075006-1. ISSN 1079-7114

Spencer, I. and Ledingham, K. W.D. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Singhal, R. P. and Foster, P. S. and Neely, D. and Langley, A. J. and Divall, E. J. and Hooker, C. J. and Clarke, R. J. and Norreys, P. A. and Clark, E. L. and Krushelnick, K. and Davies, J. R. (2003) Experimental study of proton emission from 60-fs, 200-mJ high-repetition-rate tabletop-laser pulses interacting with solid targets. Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 67 (4). pp. 464021-464025. 046402. ISSN 2470-0053

Tatarakis, M. and Beg, F.N. and Clark, E.L. and Dangor, A.E. and Edwards, R.D. and Evans, R.G. and Goldsack, T.J. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Norreys, P.A. and Sinclair, M.A. and Wei, M.S. and Zepf, M. and Krushelnick, K. (2003) Propagation instabilities of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams. Physical Review Letters, 90 (17). pp. 175001-1. ISSN 1079-7114

Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and Singhal, R.P. (2003) Applications for nuclear phenomena generated by ultra-intense lasers. Science, 300 (5622). pp. 1107-1111. ISSN 0036-8075

Tasker, A.D. and Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McCanny, T. and McKenna, P. and Kosmidis, C. and Jaroszynski, D.A. (2003) Femtosecond ionization and dissociation of laser desorbed nitro-PAHs. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 225 (1). pp. 53-70. ISSN 1387-3806

McKenna, P. and Ledingham, K. W. D. and Spencer, I. and McCany, T. and Singhal, R. P. and Ziener, C. and Foster, P. S. and Divall, E. J. and Hooker, C. J. and Neely, D. and Langley, A. J. and Clarke, R. J. and Norreys, P. A. and Krushelnick, K. and Clark, E. L. (2002) Characterization of multiterawatt laser-solid interactions for proton acceleration. Review of Scientific Instruments, 73 (12). pp. 4176-4184. ISSN 1089-7623

Spencer, I. and Ledingham, K. W. D. and Singhal, R. P. and McCanny, T. and McKenna, P. and Clark, E. L. and Krushelnick, K. and Zepf, M. and Beg, F. N. and Tatarakis, M. and Dangor, A. E. and Edwards, R. D. and Sinclair, M. A. and Norreys, P. A. and Clarke, R. J. and Allott, R. M. (2002) A nearly real-time high temperature laser-plasma diagnostic using photonuclear reactions in tantalum. Review of Scientific Instruments, 73 (11). pp. 3801-3805. ISSN 1089-7623

Robson, L. and Tasker, A.D. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Kosmidis, C. and Tzallas, P. and Jaroszynski, D.A. and Jones, D.R. (2002) Ionisation and fragmentation dynamics of laser desorbed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons using femtosecond and nanosecond post-ionisation. International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 220 (1). pp. 69-85. ISSN 1387-3806

Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Tasker, A.D. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Kosmidis, C. and Jaroszynski, D.A. and Jones, D.R. and Issac, R.C. (2002) Ionisation and fragmentation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by femtosecond laser pulses at wavelengths resonant with cation transitions. Chemical Physics Letters, 360 (3-4). pp. 382-389. ISSN 0009-2614

Tasker, A.D. and Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and McCanny, T. and Hankin, S.M. and McKenna, P. and Kosmidis, C. and Jaroszynski, D.A. (2002) A high mass resolution study of the interaction of aromatic and nitro-aromatic molecules with intense laser fields. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 106 (16). pp. 4005-4013. ISSN 1089-5639

Hankin, S.M. and Tasker, A.D. and Robson, L. and Ledingham, K.W.D. and Fang, X. and McKenna, P. and McCanny, T. and Singhal, R.P. (2002) Femtosecond laser time-of-flight mass spectrometry of labile molecular analytes: laser-desorbed nitro-aromatic molecules. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 16 (2). pp. 111-116. ISSN 0951-4198

Meikle, AR and Bates, RL and Ledingham, K and Marsh, JH and Mathieson, K and O'Shea, V and Smith, KM (2002) 3-D GaAs radiation detectors. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 477 (1-3). pp. 198-203. ISSN 0168-9002