Paul McKenna

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Professor, Physics
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8061-7091

Phone01415485712
Emailpaul.mckenna@strath.ac.uk

United Kingdom

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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

2 Not started
13 Active
33 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 | Goodman, Jack

McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Goodman, J.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/10/19 → 1/04/23

Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated

Research Output

206 Article
30 Conference contribution book
6 Conference Contribution
6 Letter
13 More

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., 29 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Applied Physics Letters.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Characteristics of ion beams generated in the interaction of ultra-short laser pulses with ultra-thin foils

McIlvenny, A., Ahmed, H., Scullion, C., Doria, D., Romagnani, L., Martin, P., Naughton, K., Sgattoni, A., Symes, D. R., Macchi, A., McKenna, P., Zepf, M., Kar, S. & Borghesi, M., 5 Mar 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 15 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article