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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

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

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

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

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

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

2018

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.

2017

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

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

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

2013

Ciocarlan, Cristian and Wiggins, Mark and Islam, Mohammad and Ersfeld, Bernhard and Abu-Azoum, Salima Saleh and Wilson, Robbie and Aniculaesei, Constantin and Welsh, Gregor H. and Vieux, Gregory and Jaroszynski, Dino (2013) The role of the gas/plasma plume and self-focusing in a gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide for high-power laser-plasma applications. Physics of Plasmas, 20. 093108. ISSN 1070-664X