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Personal Statement
Paul McKenna's research interests focus on high power laser-plasma interactions. His present research topics include: laser-driven ion acceleration; fast electron generation and transport in dense plasma, and application to the development of advanced schemes for inertial fusion energy; high field physics at the focus of ultra-intense laser pulses; plasma optics; and, laser-driven nuclear physics.
He is an EPSRC Leadership fellow since 2012 and a Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics at the University of Strathclyde since 2011. He received his PhD at Queens University Belfast in 2000, before becoming a postdoctoral fellow at the university of Glasgow from 2000-2002. From 2002-2005, he held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde, and was appointed to a Lectureship at the university in 2006, and a Readership in 2008.
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Projects
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Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Bacon, Ewan
McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Bacon, E.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/20 → 1/04/24
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
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STFC Strathclyde 2020 DTP
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/10/20 → 30/09/24
Project: Research - Studentship
Research Output
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A miniature thermal neutron source using high power lasers
Mirfayzi, S. R., Ahmed, H., Doria, D., Alejo, A., Ansell, S., Clarke, R. J., Gonzalez-Izquierdo, B., Hadjisolomou, P., Heathcote, R., Hodge, T., Martin, P., Raspino, D., Schooneveld, E., McKenna, P., Rhodes, N. J., Neely, D., Borghesi, M. & Kar, S., 1 May 2020, In: Applied Physics Letters. 116, 17, 5 p., 174102.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Bremsstrahlung emission and plasma characterization driven by moderately relativistic laser-plasma interactions
Singh, S. K., Armstrong, C., Kang, N., Ren, L., Liu, H., Hua, N., Rusby, D. R., Klimo, O., Versaci, R., Zhang, Y., Sun, M., Zhu, B., Lei, A., Ouyang, X., Lancia, L., Garcia, A. L., Wagner, A., Cowan, T. E., Zhu, J., Schlegel, T. & 5 others, , 1 Dec 2020, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Datasets
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Data for: "High-density electron-ion bunch formation and multi-GeV positron production via radiative trapping in extreme-intensity laser-plasma interactions"
McKenna, P. (Creator) & Capdessus, R. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 15 Sep 2020
DOI: 10.15129/23ca2ffe-f727-4d8c-9940-2e6cef9f1ad1
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Data for: "Relativistic Doppler-boosted gamma-rays in High Fields"
Capdessus, R. (Creator), McKenna, P. (Contributor) & King, M. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 25 May 2018
DOI: 10.15129/aca1eeb1-80ab-485d-8307-3e2289631a9d
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Activities
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Co-Chair of the Superstrong field session of the International Conference on Laser Optics - ICLO2020
Paul McKenna (Participant)
2 Dec 2020 → 6 Dec 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference
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Plenary Invited Talk at International Workshop on Laboratory Astrophysics
Paul McKenna (Speaker)
7 Dec 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk