Multi-PetaWatt Laser-Plasma Interactions: A New Frontier in Physics

McKenna, Paul (Fellow)

Project: Research Fellowship

Status	Finished
Effective start/end date	1/03/12 → 28/02/17

Funding

EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council): £1,330,509.00

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Activities

European Advanced Accelerator Concepts conference/workshop

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited talk at the 2nd Conference on Extremely High Intensity Laser Physics (2017)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

33rd European Conference on Laser Interaction with Matter

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Invited talk at the Photonics Ireland international conference 2013

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

SPIE Inertial Fusion Energy conference

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Invited lecture at the ELI Summer School 2016

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

ELI-Beamlines Scientific Challenges conference

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited talk - IOP Accelerator Conference at Royal Holloway University

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited Talk at an EPS Conference Satellite International Workshop on High Field Science

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited seminar (Plasma Physics Group) at GSI, Darmstadt

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

International Conference: Laser-Optics-2014

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited Lecture at the Culham Plasma Summer School 2017

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited talk at the Cockcroft Institute

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited research seminar at Chalmers University

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited talk at the International Conference on Ultrafast Optical Science (UltrafastLIght-2017)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited talk at the Frontiers in Plasma Physics and Technology international conference 2013

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

GSI mbH, PHELIX Dept

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

42nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited talk - Central Laser Facility 40th Anniversary Meeting

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

1st International Conference on Extreme Light (ICEL) 2015

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited talk at the ELI-NP workshop "Towards experiments at ELI-NP"

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Central Laser Facility

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

Invited talk at CETAL facility forum

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

13th International Workshop on Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

SPIE optoelectronics : particle acceleration conference

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Invited lecture on laser-plasma physics at Culham Summer School

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

CLEO:2014 - Laser Science to Photonic Applications

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

ELI-NP workshop at the University of York

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

SPIE international conference on Medical Applications of high power lasers-Co-Chair

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference

HIBEF European XFEL Workshop, Hamburg

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited talk at the 2nd International Symposium on High Power Laser Science and Engineering (HPLSE2016).

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited seminar at the Lund Laser Centre

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Creativity at Home workshop

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

STFC - Central Laser Facility

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

ELI-NP Summer School

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

QuAMP Summer School

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Invited seminar: Self-generated current structures in relativistic laser-solid interactions

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Culham Plasma Summer School 2015

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

Invited lecture at the 2016 Culham Summer School

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Invited talk - 17th International Conference on Laser-Optics 2016

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

GSI mbH, PHELIX Dept

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

ORION laser access (External organisation)

Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee

AWE plc

Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution

IZEST International Conference / Workshop

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Culham Plasma Physics Summer School 2014

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences

The 16th International conference on Laser-Optics

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organiser of major conference

SPIE Optoelectronics - medical applications of high power lasers

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Invited talk at the CLPU workshop at the university of Salamanca, Spain

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Research Output

Role of lattice structure and low temperature resistivity on fast electron beam filamentation in carbon

Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue

Hot electron production in laser solid interactions with a controlled pre-pulse

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Diagnosis of Weibel instability evolution in the rear surface scale lengths of laser solid interactions via proton acceleration

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Unraveling resistive versus collisional contributions to relativistic electron beam stopping power in cold-solid and in warm-dense plasmas

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Enhanced proton beam collimation in the ultra-intense short pulse regime

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Exotic dense-matter states pumped by a relativistic laser plasma in the radiation-dominated regime

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Polarization dependence of bulk ion acceleration from ultrathin foils irradiated by high intensity, ultrashort laser pulses

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Time-resolved measurements of fast electron recirculation for relativistically intense femtosecond scale laser-plasma interactions

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Relativistic high-current electron-beam stopping-power characterization in solids and plasmas: collisional versus resistive effects

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Role of momentum and velocity for radiating electrons

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Measurement of the angle, temperature and flux of fast electrons emitted from intense laser-solid interactions

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

High energy conversion efficiency in laser-proton acceleration by controlling laser-energy deposition onto thin foil targets

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Measurement and simulations of hollow atom X-ray spectra of solid-density relativistic plasma created by high-contrast PW optical laser pulses

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

γ-ray generation enhancement by the charge separation field in laser-target interaction in the radiation dominated regime

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Influence of laser-drive parameters on annular fast electron transport in silicon

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Fast electron transport patterns in intense laser-irradiated solids diagnosed by modeling measured multi-MeV proton beams

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Effects of target pre-heating and expansion on terahertz radiation production from intense laser-solid interactions

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Single shot, temporally and spatially resolved measurements of fast electron dynamics using a chirped optical probe

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Influence of low-temperature resistivity on fast electron transport in solids: scaling to fast ignition electron beam parameters

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Ultra-intense X-ray radiation photopumping of exotic states of matter by relativistic laser–plasma in the radiation-dominated kinetic regime (RDKR)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book

The influence of preformed plasma on the surface-guided lateral transport of energetic electrons in ultraintense short laser-foil interactions

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Modified Thomson spectrometer design for high energy, multi-species ion sources

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Influence of low-temperature resistivity on fast electron transport in solids: scaling to fast ignition electron beam parameters

Dataset

Diagnosis of Weibel instability evolution in the rear surface scale lengths of laser solid interactions via proton acceleration

Dataset

Geant4 study of wrap-around detector response and experimental measurements of angular distribution of fast-electrons from laser-solid interactions using the PHELIX laser

Dataset

Multi-PetaWatt Laser-Plasma Interactions: A New Frontier in Physics

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