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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

2022

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

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

2018

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

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

2017

Svensson, K. and Mackenroth, F. and Senje, L. and Gonoskov, A. and Harvey, C. and Aurand, B. and Hansson, M. and Higginson, A. and Dalui, M. and Lundh, O. and McKenna, P. and Persson, A. and Marklund, M. and Wahlström, C.-G. (2017) Transverse expansion of the electron sheath during laser acceleration of protons. Physics of Plasmas, 24. 123109. ISSN 1070-664X

Mirfayzi, S. R. and Alejo, A. and Ahmed, H. and Raspino, D. and Ansell, S. and Wilson, L.A. and Armstrong, C. and Butler, N.M.H. and Clarke, R. J. and Higginson, A. and Kelleher, J. and Murphy, C. and Notley, M. and Rusby, D.R. and Schooneveld, E. and Borghesi, M. and McKenna, P. and Rhodes, N. J. and Neely, D. and Brenner, C.M. and Kar, S. (2017) Experimental demonstration of a compact epithermal neutron source based on a high power laser. Applied Physics Letters, 111 (4). 044101. ISSN 0003-6951

2016

Rusby, D. R. and Brenner, C. M. and Armstrong, C. and Wilson, L. A. and Clarke, R. and Alejo, A. and Ahmed, H. and Butler, N. M. H. and Haddock, D. and Higginson, A. and McClymont, A. and Mirfayzi, S. R. and Murphy, C. and Notley, M. and Oliver, P. and Allott, R. and Hernandez-Gomez, C. and Kar, S. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. (2016) Pulsed X-ray imaging of high-density objects using a ten picosecond high-intensity laser driver. Proceedings of SPIE, 9992. 99920E. ISSN 0277-786X

Mirfayzi, S. R. and Alejo, A. and Ahmed, H. and Wilson, L. A. and Ansell, S. and Armstrong, C. and Butler, N. M. H. and Clarke, R. J. and Higginson, A. and Notley, M. and Raspino, D. and Rusby, D. R. and Borghesi, M. and Rhodes, N. J. and McKenna, P. and Neely, D. and Brenner, C. M. and Kar, S. (2016) Detector for imaging and dosimetry of laser-driven epithermal neutrons by alpha conversion. Journal of Instrumentation, 11. C10008. ISSN 1748-0221

Alejo, A. and Kar, S. and Tebartz, A. and Ahmed, H. and Astbury, S. and Carroll, D.C. and Ding, J. and Doria, D. and Higginson, A. and McKenna, P. and Neumann, N. and Scott, G.G. and Wagner, F. and Roth, M. and Borghesi, M. (2016) High resolution Thomson Parabola Spectrometer for full spectral capture of multi-species ion beams. Review of Scientific Instruments, 87 (8). 083304. ISSN 0034-6748

Jones, Christoper P. and Brenner, Ceri M. and Stitt, Camilla A. and Armstrong, Chris and Rusby, Dean R. and Mirfayzi, Seyed R. and Wilson, Lucy A. and Alejo, Aarón and Ahmed, Hamad and Allott, Ric and Butler, Nicholas M. H. and Clarke, Robert J. and Haddock, David and Hernandez-Gomez, Cristina and Higginson, Adam and Murphy, Christopher and Notley, Margaret and Paraskevoulakos, Charilaos and Jowsey, John and McKenna, Paul and Neely, David and Kar, Satya and Scott, Thomas B. (2016) Evaluating laser-driven Bremsstrahlung radiation sources for imaging and analysis of nuclear waste packages. Journal of Hazardous Materials. ISSN 0304-3894

Aurand, B. and Senje, L. and Svensson, K. and Hansson, M. and Higginson, A. and Gonoskov, A. and Marklund, M. and Persson, A. and Lundh, O. and Neely, D. and McKenna, P. and Wahlström, C.-G. (2016) Manipulation of the spatial distribution of laser-accelerated proton beams by varying the laser intensity distribution. Physics of Plasmas, 23 (2). 023113. ISSN 1070-664X

2015

Brenner, C M and Mirfayzi, S R and Rusby, D R and Armstrong, C and Alejo, A and Wilson, L and Clarke, R and Ahmed, H and Butler, N M H and Haddock, D and Higginson, A and McClymont, A and Murphy, C and Notley, M and Oliver, P and Allott, R and Hernandez-Gomez, C and Kar, S and McKenna, P and Neely, D (2015) Laser-driven X-ray and neutron source development for industrial applications of plasma accelerators. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 58. 014039. ISSN 0741-3335