Paul McKenna — University of Strathclyde

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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

2 Not started
16 Active
26 Finished

Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2018 | Horne, Alana

McKenna, P., Gray, R. & Horne, A.

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

1/10/18 → 1/10/22

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

Advanced laser-plasma optics technology

McKenna, P.

STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council

1/03/18 → 31/10/22

Project: Research - Studentship › Research Studentship

Research Output 1999 2019

189 Article
28 Conference contribution
7 Doctoral Thesis
6 Letter
18 More

An optically multiplexed single-shot time resolving probe of laser-plasma dynamics

Davidson, Z. E., Gonzalez Izquierdo, B., Higginson, A., Lancaster, K. L., Williamson, S. D. R., King, M., Farley, D., Neely, D., McKenna, P. & Gray, R. J., 7 Feb 2019, In : Optics Express. 27, 4, p. 4416-4423 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

plasma dynamics

laser plasmas

shot

probes

pulses

Bremsstrahlung emission from high power laser interactions with constrained targets for industrial radiography

Armstrong, C. D., Brenner, C. M., Jones, C., Rusby, D. R., Davidson, Z. E., Zhang, Y., Wragg, J., Richards, S., Spindloe, C., Oliveira, P., Notley, M., Clarke, R., Mirfayzi, S. R., Kar, S., Li, Y., Scott, T., McKenna, P. & Neely, D., 30 Jan 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Industrial radiography

High power lasers

radiography

bremsstrahlung

high power lasers