Cockcroft Phase 4

McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator)
Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator)
Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator)
McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator)
Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator)
Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)

Project: Research

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/04/21 → 30/06/25

Funding

STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council: £15,910.00
STFC Science and Technology Facilities Council: £1,259,766.00

8 Article
1 Commissioned report
1 Poster
1 Letter

ITRF/LhARA Conceptual Design Report
Ahmed, H., Alderton, M., Amos, R. A., Ariyanto, D. O., Baker, C. J., Bamber, J., Bebbington, J., Bertsche, W., Bingham, R., Bliss, N., Boella, E., Boogert, S., Borghesi, M., Buckley, R., Burrows, P. N., Casati, G., Charlton, M., Chen, X., Clarke, J. & Cox, B. T. & 94 others, Cox, G., Dascalu, T.-S., Dolier, E., Dosanjh, M., Dover, N. P., Dyson, C., Eriksson, S., Fernandez-Rodriguez, A., Gerlach, S., Giaccia, A., Gibson, S., Goulden, A., Gray, R., Green, S., Greenshaw, T., Griffiths, S., Gujral, D., Hall, H. C., Hardiman, C., Harris, E. J., Hill, C., Hobson, P. R., Hugtenburg, R. P., Isaac, A., Johnson, M., Jones, W. G., Jurj, P. J., King, M., Knoll, A., Kumar, N., Kuo, T. J., Kurup, A., Lagrange, J. B., Lascaud, J., Lombardi, A. M., Long, K. R., Luk, W. G., Lyu, S., Masilela, T. A. M., Matthews, P., Maxouti, M., McGarrigle, J. M., McKenna, P., McLauchlan, R., McNeish, I., Melia, E., Middleman, K., Najmudin, Z., Noro, M., O’Neill, S. R., Obst-Huebl, L., Oelfke, U., Owen, H., Palmer, C., Parambil, F., Parodi, K., Parsons, J. L., Pasternak, J., Patel, M., Pattathil, R., Pereira, M., Poptani, H., Prezado, Y., Price, P., Price, T., Prise, K. M., Pugh, C., Ratoff, P., Razak, R., Romano, F., Ruksasakchai, P., Sabate-Gilarte, M., Sadhur, Z., Sandhu, A., Schettino, G., Schreiber, J., Shields, W., Smart, B., Smith, R. A., Snijders, A. M., Spiers, D., Tantawi, S., Thomason, J. W. G., Torrance, B., Towe, S., Underwood, T., van der Werf, D. P., Vick, A., Vikhoreva, A., Weightman, P., Welsch, C. P., Whyte, C., Wilson, R. & Zakhir, N., Feb 2026, 275 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

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ARISE: an algorithm for rapid ion spectrum extraction enabling real-time optimisation in high-repetition-rate laser-driven ion acceleration
Torrance, B. C., McQueen, C. J. G., Wilson, R., Alderton, M., Dolier, E. J., Peat Romero, M. P., Nayli, R., King, M., Gray, R. J. & McKenna, P., 25 Jan 2026, In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 13, 11 p., e105.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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A neural network-based synthetic diagnostic of laser-accelerated proton energy spectra
McQueen, C. J. G., Wilson, R., Frazer, T. P., King, M., Alderton, M., Bacon, E. F. J., Dolier, E. J., Dzelzainis, T., Patel, J. K., Peat, M. P., Torrance, B. C., Gray, R. J. & McKenna, P., 12 Feb 2025, In: Communications Physics. 8, 1, 11 p., 66.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Data for: "A neural network-based synthetic diagnostic of laser-accelerated proton energy spectra"
King, M. (Creator), McKenna, P. (Creator), Gray, R. (Creator) & McQueen, C. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 13 Feb 2025
DOI: 10.15129/cee473ca-3d2d-4150-b46b-6f964e8ce9d1
Dataset
Data for: "Magnetron Injection Gun for high-power gyroklystron"
Zhang, L. (Creator), Cross, A. (Owner) & Nix, L. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 1 Jun 2021
DOI: 10.15129/48f5ca92-c244-4426-95d8-24a22fb60e08
Dataset
Data for: "Geometry effects on energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons with open and closed hemisphere-cone targets"
King, M. (Creator), McKenna, P. (Creator), Gray, R. (Creator) & Wilson, R. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 10 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.15129/9cdd2ccc-6dfa-4bb4-9678-4c6f467afdd5
Dataset

Invited Talk at the 4th ELIMED Workshop: "Stabilising Laser-driven Ion Sources with Real Time Optimisation and Machine Learning-based Synthetic Diagnostics"
McKenna, P. (Speaker)
17 Mar 2026
Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
Invited Talk at the Cockcroft Institute Scientific Advisory Committee meeting 2025
McKenna, P. (Speaker)
Feb 2025
Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk
Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Ultra-Thin Targetry
Alderton, M. (Speaker), McKenna, P. (Contributor), Gray, R. (Contributor), Dolier, E. (Contributor), Nayli, R. (Contributor), McQueen, C. (Contributor), Symes, D. (Contributor), Torrance, B. (Contributor) & Wilson, R. (Contributor)
15 Jan 2025
Activity: Talk or Presentation › Oral presentation

Cockcroft Phase 4

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ITRF/LhARA Conceptual Design Report

ARISE: an algorithm for rapid ion spectrum extraction enabling real-time optimisation in high-repetition-rate laser-driven ion acceleration

A neural network-based synthetic diagnostic of laser-accelerated proton energy spectra

Data for: "A neural network-based synthetic diagnostic of laser-accelerated proton energy spectra"

Data for: "Magnetron Injection Gun for high-power gyroklystron"

Data for: "Geometry effects on energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons with open and closed hemisphere-cone targets"

Invited Talk at the 4th ELIMED Workshop: "Stabilising Laser-driven Ion Sources with Real Time Optimisation and Machine Learning-based Synthetic Diagnostics"

Invited Talk at the Cockcroft Institute Scientific Advisory Committee meeting 2025

Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Ultra-Thin Targetry

Cockcroft Phase 4

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Funding

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Research output

Datasets

Activities