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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 2007 2022
Advanced laser-plasma optics technology
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council
1/03/18 → 31/10/22
Project: Research - Studentship › Research Studentship
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Frazer, Timothy
McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. & Frazer, T.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/17 → 1/04/21
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated › Research Studentship (Internally Allocated)
Research Output 2002 2018
Attosecond electron bunches from a nanofiber driven by Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses
Hu, L-X., Yu, T-P., Sheng, Z-M., Vieira, J., Zou, D-B., Yin, Y., McKenna, P. & Shao, F-Q. 8 May 2018 In : Scientific Reports. 8, 9 p., 7282Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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pulses
lasers
laser plasma interactions
electrons
radiation sources
Bright attosecond gamma-ray pulses from nonlinear Compton scattering with laser-illuminated compound targets
Zhu, X-L., Chen, M., Yu, T-P., Weng, S-M., Hu, L-X., McKenna, P. & Sheng, Z-M. 27 Apr 2018 In : Applied Physics Letters. 112, 17, 5 p., 174102Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter
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Datasets
Data for: "Relativistic Doppler-boosted gamma-rays in High Fields"
Capdessus, R. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 25 May 2018
DOI: 10.15129/aca1eeb1-80ab-485d-8307-3e2289631a9d
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Data for: "Bright attosecond γ-ray pulses from nonlinear Compton scattering with laser-illuminated compound targets"
Sheng, Z. (Creator), Zhu, X. (Creator), McKenna, P. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 23 Apr 2018
DOI: 10.15129/f1e47ec5-11b0-41a2-ab5d-00b402ba7552, https://hpc.sjtu.edu.cn/info/1011/1559.htm
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Thesis
Collective charged particle dynamics in relativistically transparent laser-plasma interactions
Author: Gonzalez Izquierdo, B., 1 Apr 2016Supervisor: McKenna, P. (Supervisor) & Jaroszynski, D. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Experimental studies of laser plasma wakefield acceleration
Author: Aniculaesei, C., 1 Oct 2012Supervisor: Jaroszynski, D. (Supervisor) & McKenna, P. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Activities 2012 2017
Invited Lecture at the Culham Plasma Summer School 2017
McKenna, P. (Invited speaker)25 Jul 2017
Activity: Invited talk
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL (External organisation)
McKenna, P. (Advisor)1 Sep 2017 → 2020
Activity: Membership of board