Paul McKenna

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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 2007 2023

2 Not started
14 Active
32 Finished

PANAMA: Plasma Accelerators for Nuclear Applications and Materials Analysis (panama) - National Nuclear User Facility Phase 2

Renshaw, J., Jaroszynski, D., Lunn, R., McKenna, P. & Bots, P.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/11/19 → 30/04/23

Project: Research

Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Dolier, Ewan

McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Dolier, E.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/10/19 → 1/04/23

Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated › Research Studentship (Internally Allocated)

Research Output 1999 2019

201 Article
30 Conference contribution book
7 Doctoral Thesis
6 Conference Contribution
19 More

Absolute calibration of microchannel plate detector for carbon ions up to 250 MeV

McIlvenny, A., Doria, D., Romagnani, L., Ahmed, H., Martin, P., Williamson, S. D. R., Ditter, E. J., Ettlinger, O., Hicks, G. S., McKenna, P., Najmudin, Z., Neely, D., Kar, S. & Borghesi, M., 5 Apr 2019, In : Journal of Instrumentation. 14, 4, 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Microchannel Plate

microchannel plates

Microchannels

Steradian

Carbon

A new energy spectrum reconstruction method for time-of-flight diagnostics of high-energy laser-driven protons

Milluzzo, G., Scuderi, V., Alejo, A., Amico, A. G., Booth, N., Borghesi, M., Cirrone, G. A. P., Cuttone, G., Doria, D., Green, J., Kar, S., Korn, G., Larosa, G., Leanza, R., Margarone, D., Martin, P., McKenna, P., Petringa, G., Pipek, J., Romagnani, L. & 3 othersRomano, F., Russo, A. & Schillaci, F., 31 Aug 2019, In : Review of Scientific Instruments. 90, 8, 7 p., 083303.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

High energy lasers

Protons

energy spectra

Detectors

protons