Browse by Author or creator

2024

Patel, J. K. and Armstrong, C. D. and Wilson, R. and Alderton, M. and Dolier, E. J. and Frazer, T. P. and Horne, A. and Lofrese, A. and Peat, M. and Woodward, M. and Zielbauer, B and Clarke, R. J. and Deas, R. and Rajeev, P. P. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. (2024) A scintillating fiber imaging spectrometer for active characterisation of laser-driven proton beams. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. ISSN 2052-3289 (In Press)

2023

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

2022

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

2021

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

Armstrong, C. D. and Neely, D. and Kumar, D. and McKenna, P. and Gray, R. J. and Pirozhkov, A. S. (2021) Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann x-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analytical parameter reduction. Review of Scientific Instruments, 92 (11). p. 113102. 113102. ISSN 0034-6748

2020

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

Qu, J. F. and Liu, P. and Liu, X. Y. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. and Li, X. F. and Kawata, S. and Kong, Q. (2020) Relativistic mid-wavelength infrared pulses generated in intense-laser mass-limited target interactions. New Journal of Physics, 22 (9). 093007. ISSN 1367-2630

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

2019

Wiggins, S. M. and Boyd, M. and Brunetti, E. and Butler, N. M. H. and Feehan, J. S. and Gray, R. J. and Hidding, B. and Ireland, D. G. and Li, W. and Maitrallain, A. and Manahan, G. G. and McKenna, P. and O'Donnell, D. and Scheck, M. and Shahzad, M. and Sheng, Z.-M. and Spesyvtsev, R. and Vieux, G. and Watts, D. P. and Welsh, G. H. and Wilson, R. and Zachariou, N. and Jaroszynski, D. A.; Hur, MinSup and Jaroszynski, Dino A., eds. (2019) Application programmes at the Scottish centre for the application of plasma-based accelerators (SCAPA). In: Proceedings of SPIE. SPIE, CZE. ISBN 9781510627383

Green, J. S. and Booth, N. and Dance, R. J. and Gray, R. J. and MacLellan, D. A. and Marshall, A. and McKenna, P. and Murphy, C. D. and Ridgers, C. P. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Rusby, D. and Scott, R. H. H. and Wilson, L. (2019) Time-resolved measurements of fast electron recirculation for relativistically intense femtosecond scale laser-plasma interactions. Scientific Reports, 8 (1). 4525. ISSN 2045-2322

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

2018

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

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

Bradford, P and Woolsey, N. C. and Scott, G. G. and Liao, G. and Liu, H. and Zhang, Y. and Zhu, B. and Armstrong, C. and Astbury, S. and Brenner, C. and Brummitt, P. and Consoli, F. and East, I. and Gray, R. and Haddock, D. and Huggard, P. and Jones, P. J. R. and Montgomery, E. and Musgrave, I. and Oliveira, P. and Rusby, D. R. and Spindloe, C. and Summers, B. and Zemaityte, E. and Zhang, Z. and Li, Y. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. (2018) EMP control and characterisation on high-power laser systems. High Power Laser Science and Engineering. ISSN 2052-3289 (In Press)

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.

Rusby, Dean and Gray, Ross and Butler, Nicholas and Dance, Rachel and Scott, Graeme and Bagnoud, Vincent and Zielbauer, Bernhard and McKenna, Paul and Neely, David (2018) Escaping electrons from intense laser-solid interactions as a function of laser spot size. EPJ Web of Conferences, 167. pp. 1-5. 02001. ISSN 2100-014X

2017

Chatterjee, Gourab and Singh, Prashant Kumar and Robinson, A. P.L. and Blackman, D. and Booth, N. and Culfa, O. and Dance, R. J. and Gizzi, L. A. and Gray, R. J. and Green, J. S. and Koester, P. and Kumar, G. Ravindra and Labate, L. and Lad, Amit D. and Lancaster, K. L. and Pasley, J. and Woolsey, N. C. and Rajeev, P. P. (2017) Micron-scale mapping of megagauss magnetic fields using optical polarimetry to probe hot electron transport in petawatt-class laser-solid interactions. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). 8347. ISSN 2045-2322

Hidding, B. and Karger, O. and Königstein, T. and Pretzler, G. and Manahan, G. G. and McKenna, P. and Gray, R. and Wilson, R. and Wiggins, S. M. and Welsh, G. H. and Beaton, A. and Delinikolas, P. and Jaroszynski, D. A. and Rosenzweig, J. B. and Karmakar, A. and Ferlet-Cavrois, V. and Constantino, A. and Muschitiello, M. and Daly, E. (2017) Laser-plasma-based space radiation reproduction in the laboratory. Scientific Reports, 7. 42354. ISSN 2045-2322

2016

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

Scullion, C. and Doria, D. and Romagnani, L. and Ahmed, H. and Alejo, A. and Ettlinger, O.C. and Gray, R.J. and Green, J. and Hicks, G.S. and Jung, D. and Naughton, K. and Padda, H. and Poder, K. and Scott, G.G. and Symes, D.R. and Kar, S. and McKenna, P. and Najmudin, Z. and Neely, D. and Zepf, M. and Borghesi, M. (2016) Angularly resolved characterization of ion beams from laser-ultrathin foil interactions. Journal of Instrumentation, 11. C09020. ISSN 1748-0221

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

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

Culfa, O. and Tallents, G.J. and Rossall, A.K. and Wagenaars, E. and Ridgers, C. P. and Murphy, C.D. and Dance, R. J. and Gray, R. J. and McKenna, P. and Brown, C.D.R and James, S.F. and Hoarty, D.J. and Booth, N. and Robinson, A.P.L. and Lancaster, K.L. and Pikuz, S.A. and Faenov, A. Ya and Kampfer, T. and Schulze, K. S. and Uschmann, I. and Woolsey, N.C. (2016) Plasma scale-length effects on electron energy spectra in high-irradiance laser plasmas. Physical Review E, 93 (4). 043201. ISSN 2470-0053

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

2015

Doria, D. and Kar, S. and Ahmed, H. and Alejo, A and Fernandez, J. and Cerchez, M. and Gray, R. J. and Hanton, F. and MacLellan, D. A. and McKenna, P. and Najmudin, Z. and Neely, D. and Romagnani, L. and Ruiz, J. A. and Sarri, G. and Scullion, C. and Streeter, M. and Swantusch, M. and Willi, O. and Zepf, M. and Borghesi, M. (2015) Calibration of BAS-TR image plate response to high energy (3-300 MeV) carbon ions. Review of Scientific Instruments, 86 (12). 123302. ISSN 0034-6748

Dance, R J and Butler, N M H and Gray, R J and MacLellan, D A and Rusby, D R and Scott, G G and Zielbauer, B and Bagnoud, V and Xu, H and Robinson, A P L and Desjarlais, M P and Neely, D and McKenna, P (2015) Role of lattice structure and low temperature resistivity on fast electron beam filamentation in carbon. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58 (1). 014027. ISSN 0741-3335

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

Rusby, D. R. and Wilson, L. A. and Gray, R. J. and Dance, R. J. and Butler, N. M H and MacLellan, D. A. and Scott, G. G. and Bagnoud, V. and Zielbauer, B. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. (2015) Measurement of the angle, temperature and flux of fast electrons emitted from intense laser-solid interactions. Journal of Plasma Physics, 81 (5). 475810505. ISSN 0022-3778

Ge, X. L. and Lin, X. X. and Yuan, X. H. and Carroll, D. C. and Gray, R. J. and Yu, T. P. and Tresca, O. and Chen, M. and Liu, F. and Zhou, H. B. and Zielbauer, B. and Zhao, L. and Neely, D. and Sheng, Z.M. and Li, Y. T. and McKenna, P. (2015) Directed fast electron beams in ultraintense picosecond laser irradiated solid targets. Applied Physics Letters, 107 (9). 091111. ISSN 0003-6951

McKenna, P and MacLellan, D A and Butler, N. M. H. and Dance, R J and Gray, R J and Robinson, A P L and Neely, D and Desjarlais, M P (2015) Influence of low-temperature resistivity on fast electron transport in solids : scaling to fast ignition electron beam parameters. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 57 (6). 064001. ISSN 0741-3335

Vaisseau, X. and Debayle, A. and Honrubia, J. J. and Hulin, S. and Morace, A and Nicolai, Ph. and Sawada, H. and Vauzour, B. and Batani, D. and Beg, F. N. and Davies, J. R. and Fedosejevs, R and Gray, R. J. and Kemp, G E and Kerr, S and Li, K and Link, A and McKenna, P. and McLean, H S and Mo, M and Neely, David and Patel, P K and Park, J and Peebles, J and Rhee, Y J and Sorokovikova, A and Tikhonchuk, V. T. and Volpe, L. and Wei, M and Santos, J. J. (2015) Enhanced relativistic-electron-beam energy loss in warm dense aluminum. Physical Review Letters. 095004. ISSN 1079-7114

2014

Gray, R J and Carroll, D C and Yuan, X H and Brenner, C M and Burza, M and Coury, M and Lancaster, K L and Lin, X X and Li, Y T and Neely, D and Quinn, M N and Tresca, O and Wahlström, C-G and McKenna, P (2014) Laser pulse propagation and enhanced energy coupling to fast electrons in dense plasma gradients. New Journal of Physics, 16 (11). 113075. ISSN 1367-2630

MacLellan, David and Carroll, David and Gray, Ross and Booth, Nicola and Burza, Matthias and Desjarlais, M. P. and Du, F and Neely, David and Powell, Haydn and Robinson, A.P.L. and Scott, Graeme Gordon and Yuan, Xiaohui and Wahlstrom, C. -G. and McKenna, Paul (2014) Tunable mega-ampere electron current propagation in solids by dynamic control of lattice melt. Physical Review Letters, 113 (18). 185001. ISSN 1079-7114

Gray, Ross and MacLellan, David and Izquierdo, Bruno and Powell, Haydn and Carroll, David and Murphy, C.D. and Stockhausen, L.C. and Rusby, Dean and Scott, G. and Wilson, R. and Booth, Nicola and Symes, Dan and Hawkes, S. and Torres, R and Borghesi, M. and McKenna, Paul (2014) Azimuthal asymmetry in collective electron dynamics in relativistically transparent laser-foil interactions. New Journal of Physics, 16. 093027. ISSN 1367-2630

MacLellan, D A and Carroll, D C and Gray, R J and Robinson, A P L and Desjarlais, M P and Neely, D and McKenna, P (2014) Influence of laser-drive parameters on annular fast electron transport in silicon. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 56 (8). 084002. ISSN 0741-3335

Green, J. S. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Booth, N. and Carroll, D. C. and Dance, R. J. and Gray, R. J. and MacLellan, D. A. and McKenna, P. and Murphy, C. D. and Rusby, D. and Wilson, L. (2014) High efficiency proton beam generation through target thickness control in femtosecond laser-plasma interactions. Applied Physics Letters, 104 (21). 214101. ISSN 0003-6951

Yuan, X.H. and Carroll, D.C. and Zheng, Jun J. and Liu, J L and Gray, R.J. and Brenner, C.M. and Coury, M. and Chen, L.M. and Fang, Y and Tresca, O. O. and Zielbauer, Bernhard B. and Kühl, Th U. T.U. and Li, Y.T. and Neely, David and Sheng, Zheng-Ming and McKenna, Paul (2014) The influence of preformed plasma on the surface-guided lateral transport of energetic electrons in ultraintense short laser-foil interactions. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 56 (5). 055001. ISSN 1361-6587

Yuan, Xiaohui and Fang, Y and Carroll, David and MacLellan, David and Du, F and Booth, Nicola and Burza, Matthias and Chen, Min and Gray, Ross and Jin, Y. F. and Li, Y. and Liu, Y. and Neely, David and Powell, Haydn and Scott, Graeme Gordon and Wahlström, Claes-Göran and Zhang, J. and McKenna, Paul and Sheng, Z. M. (2014) Effects of target pre-heating and expansion on terahertz radiation production from intense laser-solid interactions. High Power Laser Science and Engineering, 2. e5. ISSN 2052-3289

Hansen, S.B. and Colgan, J. and Faenov, A.Ya and Abdallah Jr, J. and Pikuz, S.A. and Skobelev, I.Yu and Wagenaars, E. and Booth, N. and Culfa, O. and Dance, R.J. and Tallents, G.J. and Evans, R.G. and Gray, R.J. and Kaempfer, T. and Lancaster, K.L. and McKenna, P. and Rossall, A.K. and Schulze, K.S. and Uschmann, I. and Zhidkov, A.G. and Woolsey, N.C. (2014) Detailed analysis of hollow ions spectra from dense matter pumped by X-ray emission of relativistic laser plasma. Physics of Plasmas, 21 (3). 031213. ISSN 1070-664X

Gwynne, D and Kar, S. and Doria, D. and Ahmed, H. and Cerchez, M. and Fernandez, J. and Gray, Ross and Green, J. and Hanton, F and MacLellan, David and McKenna, Paul and Najmudin, Z. and Neely, David and Ruiz, J.A. and Schiavi, A. and Streeter, M. J. V. and Willi, O. and Zepf, M. and Borghesi, M. (2014) Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources. Review of Scientific Instruments, 85 (3). 033304. ISSN 0034-6748

Green, J. and Murphy, C.D. and Booth, Nicola and Dance, Rachel and Gray, Ross and MacLellan, David and McKenna, Paul and Rusby, Dean and Wilson, Lucy (2014) Single shot, temporally and spatially resolved measurements of fast electron dynamics using a chirped optical probe. Journal of Instrumentation, 9 (March). P03003. ISSN 1748-0221

Brenner, Ceri Mae and Robinson, A. P. L. and Markey, K. and Scott, R. H. H. and Gray, Ross and Rosinski, M. and Deppert, K. and Badziak, J and Batani, D. and Davies, J.R. and Lancaster, K.L. and Musgrave, I. O. and Norreys, P.A. and Pasley, J. and Roth, M. and Schlenvoight, H-P and Spindloe, C. and Tatarakis, M. and Winstone, T. B. and McKenna, Paul and Neely, David (2014) High energy conversion efficiency in laser-proton acceleration by controlling laser-energy deposition onto thin foil targets. Applied Physics Letters, 104 (8). 081123. ISSN 0003-6951

Culfa, O. and Tallents, G.J. and Wagenaars, E. and Ridgers, C. P. and Dance, R. J. and Rossall, A.K. and Gray, R.J. and McKenna, Paul and Brown, C.D.R and James, S.F. and Hoarty, D.J. and Booth, N. and Robinson, A.P.L. and Lancaster, K.L. and Pikuz, S.A. and Faenov, A. Ya and Kampfer, T. and Schulze, K. S. and Uschmann, I. and Woolsey, N.C. (2014) Hot electron production in laser solid interactions with a controlled pre-pulse. Physics of Plasmas, 21 (4). ISSN 1070-664X

2013

Maclellan, D.A. and Carroll, D.C. and Gray, R.J. and Booth, N. and Izquierdo, Bruno and Powell, H.W. and Scott, Graeme G. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2013) Fast electron transport patterns in intense laser-irradiated solids diagnosed by modeling measured multi-MeV proton beams. Laser and Particle Beams, 31 (3). pp. 475-480. ISSN 0263-0346

Pikuz, S.A. and Faenov, A. and Colgan, J. and Dance, R.J. and Abdallah, J. and Wagenaars, E. and Booth, N. and Culfa, O. and Evans, R.G. and Gray, R.J. and Kaempfer, T. and Lancaster, K.L. and McKenna, P. and Rossall, A.L. and Skobelev, I. and Schulze, K.S. and Uschmann, I. and Zhidkov, A.G. and Woolsey, N.C. (2013) Measurement and simulations of hollow atom X-ray spectra of solid-density relativistic plasma created by high-contrast PW optical laser pulses. High Energy Density Physics, 9 (3). pp. 560-567. ISSN 1574-1818

MacLellan, David and Carroll, David and Gray, Ross and Booth, Nicola and Burza, Matthias and Desjarlais, Mike and Du, F and Izquierdo, Bruno and Neely, David and Powell, Haydn and Robinson, Alex and Rusby, Dean and Scott, Graeme and Yuan, Xiaohui and Wahlstrom, Claes-Goran and McKenna, Paul (2013) Annular fast electron transport in silicon arising from low-temperature resistivity. Physical Review Letters, 111 (9). 095001. ISSN 1079-7114

Coury, M. and Carroll, D. C. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Yuan, X. H. and Brenner, C. M. and Burza, M. and Gray, R. J. and Lancaster, K. L. and Li, Y. T. and Lin, X. X. and MacLellan, D. A. and Powell, H. and Quinn, M. N. and Tresca, O. and Wahlstrom, C. -G. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2013) Injection and transport properties of fast electrons in ultraintense laser-solid interactions. Physics of Plasmas, 20 (4). 043104. ISSN 1070-664X

Colgan, J. and Abdallah, J. and Faenov, A. Ya. and Pikuz, S. A. and Wagenaars, E. and Booth, N. and Culfa, O. and Dance, R. J. and Evans, R. G. and Gray, R. J. and Kaempfer, T. and Lancaster, K. L. and McKenna, P. and Rossall, A. L. and Skobelev, I. Yu. and Schulze, K. S. and Uschmann, I. and Zhidkov, A. G. and Woolsey, N. C. (2013) Exotic dense-matter states pumped by a relativistic laser plasma in the radiation-dominated regime. Physical Review Letters, 110 (12). 125001. ISSN 1079-7114

2012

Scott, R. H. H. and Beaucourt, C. and Schlenvoigt, H. -P. and Markey, K. and Lancaster, K. L. and Ridgers, C. P. and Brenner, C. M. and Pasley, J. and Gray, R. J. and Musgrave, I. O. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Li, K. and Notley, M. M. and Davies, J. R. and Baton, S. D. and Santos, J. J. and Feugeas, J. -L. and Nicolai, Ph. and Malka, G. and Tikhonchuk, V. T. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. and Rose, S. J. and Norreys, P. A. (2012) Controlling fast-electron-beam divergence using two laser pulses. Physical Review Letters, 109 (1). 015001. ISSN 1079-7114

McKenna, Paul and Carroll, David and Coury, Mireille and Robinson, A.P.L. and Yuan, Xiaohui and Brenner, Ceri Mae and Burza, Matthias and Gray, Ross and Quinn, Mark and Neely, David and Tresca, Olivier and Lancaster, Kate and Li, YT and Lin, XX and Wahlstrom, CG (2012) Influence of laser irradiated spot size on energetic electron injection and proton acceleration in foil targets. Applied Physics Letters, 100 (7). 074105. ISSN 0003-6951

2011

Gray, R. J. and Yuan, X. H. and Carroll, D. C. and Brenner, C. M. and Coury, M. and Quinn, M. N. and Tresca, O. and Zielbauer, B. and Aurand, B. and Bagnoud, V. and Fils, J. and Kuehl, T. and Lin, X. X. and Li, C. and Li, Y. T. and Roth, M. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2011) Surface transport of energetic electrons in intense picosecond laser-foil interactions. Applied Physics Letters, 99 (17). -. 171502. ISSN 0003-6951

Yuan, X. H. and Carroll, D. C. and Coury, M. and Gray, R. J. and Brenner, C. M. and Lin, X. X. and Li, Y. T. and Quinn, M. N. and Tresca, O. and Zielbauer, B. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2011) Spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy using a flat HOPG crystal. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 653 (1). pp. 145-149. ISSN 0168-9002

Tresca, O. and Carroll, D. C. and Yuan, X. H. and Aurand, B. and Bagnoud, V. and Brenner, C. M. and Coury, M. and Fils, J. and Gray, R. J. and Kuehl, T. and Li, C. and Li, Y. T. and Lin, X. X. and Quinn, M. N. and Evans, R. G. and Zielbauer, B. and Roth, M. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. (2011) Controlling the properties of ultraintense laser-proton sources using transverse refluxing of hot electrons in shaped mass-limited targets. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 53 (10). -. 105008. ISSN 0741-3335

McKenna, P. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Neely, D. and Desjarlais, M. P. and Carroll, D. C. and Quinn, M. N. and Yuan, X. H. and Brenner, C. M. and Burza, M. and Coury, M. and Gallegos, P. and Gray, R. J. and Lancaster, K. L. and Li, Y. T. and Lin, X. X. and Tresca, O. and Wahlstrom, C. -G. (2011) Effect of lattice structure on energetic electron transport in solids irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses. Physical Review Letters, 106 (18). 185004. ISSN 1079-7114

Quinn, M. N. and Yuan, X. H. and Lin, X. X. and Carroll, D. C. and Tresca, O. and Gray, R. J. and Coury, M. and Li, C. and Li, Y. T. and Brenner, C. M. and Robinson, A. P. L. and Neely, D. and Zielbauer, B. and Aurand, B. and Fils, J. and Kuehl, T. and McKenna, P. (2011) Refluxing of fast electrons in solid targets irradiated by intense, picosecond laser pulses. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 53 (2). ISSN 0741-3335