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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

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

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

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

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

Faenov, A. Ya and Colgan, J. and Pikuz, S. A. and Zhidkov, A. and Pikuz, T. A. and Abdallah, J. and Tubman, E. and Butler, N. M. H. and Dance, R. J. and Skobelev, I. Yu. and Alkhimova, M. Z. and Booth, N. and Green, J. and Gregory, C. and Andreev, A. and Nishiuchi, M. and Sakaki, H. and Sagisaka, A. and Pirozhkov, A. S. and Ogura, K. and Fukuda, Y. and Kanasaki, M. and Hasegawa, N. and Nishikino, M. and Kando, M. and Kawachi, T. and Kondo, K. and McKenna, P. and Tallents, G. J. and Woolsey, N. and Kodama, R.; Kawachi, Tetsuya and Bulanov, Sergei V. and Daido, Hiroyuki and Kato, Yoshiaki, eds. (2018) Ultra-intense X-ray radiation photopumping of exotic states of matter by relativistic laser–plasma in the radiation-dominated kinetic regime (RDKR). In: X-Ray Lasers 2016. Springer Proceedings in Physics . Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 149-158. ISBN 9783319730257

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

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

Dalimier, E. and Ya Faenov, A. and Oks, E. and Angelo, P. and Pikuz, T. A. and Fukuda, Yuji and Andreev, A and Koga, J. and Sakaki, H. and Kotaki, H. and Pirozhkov, A. and Hayashi, Y. and Skobelev, I. Yu. and Pikuz, S. A. and Kawachi, T. and Kando, M. and Kondo, K. and Zhidkov, A and Tubman, Eleanor and Butler, Nicholas Mark Henry and Dance, Rachel and Alkhimova, M. A. and Booth, N. and Green, J. and Gregory, C and McKenna, P, and Woolsey, N and Kodama, R. (2017) X-ray spectroscopy of super-intense laser-produced plasmas for the study of nonlinear processes. Comparison with PIC simulations. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 810 (1). 012004. ISSN 1742-6588

Oks, E. and Dalimier, E. and Faenov, A. Ya and Angelo, P. and Pikuz, S.A. and Tubman, E. and Butler, N.M.H. and Dance, R.J. and Pikuz, T.A. and Skobelev, I. Yu. and Alkhimova, M.A. and Booth, N. and Green, J. and Gregory, C. and Andreev, A. and Zhidkov, A. and Kodama, R. and McKenna, P. and Woolsey, N. (2017) Using X-ray spectroscopy of relativistic laser plasma interaction to reveal parametric decay instabilities : a modeling tool for astrophysics. Optics Express, 25 (3). pp. 1958-1972. ISSN 1094-4087

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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