Publications

2018:

M. J. V. Streeter, S. J. D. Dann, J. D. E. Scott, C. D. Baird, C. D. Murphy, S. Eardley, R. A. Smith, S. Rozario, J.-N. Gruse, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, S. Tata, M. Krishnamurthy, S. V. Rahul, D. Hazra, P. Pourmoussavi, J. Osterhoff, J. Hah, N. Bourgeois, C. Thornton, C. D. Gregory, C. J. Hooker, O. Chekhlov, S. J. Hawkes, B. Parry, V. A. Marshall, Y. Tang, E. Springate, P. P. Rajeev, A. G. R. Thomas, and D. R. Symes “Temporal feedback control of high-intensity laser pulses to optimize ultrafast heating of atomic clusters” Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 244101 (2018)

M. J. V. Streeter, S. Kneip, M. S. Bloom, R. A. Bendoyro, O. Chekhlov, A. E. Dangor, A. Döpp, C. J. Hooker, J. Holloway, J. Jiang, N. C. Lopes, H. Nakamura, P. A. Norreys, C. A. J. Palmer, P. P. Rajeev, J. Schreiber, D. R. Symes, M. Wing, S. P. D. Mangles, and Z. Najmudin, “Observation of Laser Power Amplification in a Self-Injecting Laser Wakefield Accelerator” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 254801 (2018).

J. H. Bin, M. Yeung, Z. Gong, H. Y. Wang, C. Kreuzer, M. L. Zhou, M. J. V. Streeter, P. S. Foster, S. Cousens, B. Dromey, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, M. Zepf, and J. Schreiber, “Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration by Superponderomotive Electrons Generated from Near-Critical-Density Plasma” Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074801 – Published 15 February 2018

J. M. Cole, K. T. Behm, E. Gerstmayr, T. G. Blackburn, J. C. Wood, C. D. Baird, M. J. Duff, C. Harvey, A. Ilderton, A. S. Joglekar, K. Krushelnick, S. Kuschel, M. Marklund, P. McKenna, C. D. Murphy, K. Poder, C. P. Ridgers, G. M. Samarin, G. Sarri, D. R. Symes, A. G. R. Thomas, J. Warwick, M. Zepf, Z. Najmudin, and S. P. D. Mangles, ‘Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam‘ Phys. Rev. X 8, 011020 – Published 7 February 2018

Vasily Yu. Kharin, Daniel Seipt, and Sergey G. Rykovanov ‘Higher-Dimensional Caustics in Nonlinear Compton Scattering‘ Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044802 – Published 26 January 2018

2017:

C. P. Ridgers, T. G. Blackburn, D. Del Sorbo, L. E. Bradley, C. Slade-Lowther, C. D. Baird, S. P. D. Mangles, P. McKenna, M. Marklund, C. D. Murphy and A. G. R. Thomas, ‘Signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in laser–electron-beam collisions‘ Journal of Plasma Physics Volume 83, Issue 5 October 2017

A. Martinez de la Ossa, Z. Hu, M. J. V. Streeter, T. J. Mehrling, O. Kononenko, B. Sheeran, and J. Osterhoff, ‘Optimizing density down-ramp injection for beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerators‘. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 20, 091301 – Published 6 September 2017

A. A. Peshkov, D. Seipt, A. Surzhykov, and S. Fritzsche, ‘Photoexcitation of atoms by Laguerre-Gaussian beams‘ Phys. Rev. A 96, 023407 – Published 7 August 2017

J. Hah, W. Jiang, Z-H. He, J. A. Nees, B. Hou, A. G. R. Thomas, and K. Krushelnick, ‘Enhancement of THz generation by feedback-optimized wavefront manipulation‘, Optics Express Vol. 25, Issue 15, pp. 17271-17279 Published 24 July 2017.

P A Walker et al., ‘Horizon 2020 EuPRAXIA design study‘, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 874, conference 1 – Published 20 July 2017.

D. Zille, D. Seipt, M. Möller, S. Fritzsche, G. G. Paulus, and D. B. Milošević, ‘Spin-dependent quantum theory of high-order above-threshold ionization‘, Phys. Rev. A 95, 063408 – Published 12 June 2017

F Dollar, C Zulick, A Raymond, V Chvykov, L Willingale, V Yanovsky, A Maksimchuk, A G R Thomas and K Krushelnick, ‘Enhanced laser absorption from radiation pressure in intense laser plasma interactions’ New Journal of Physics, Volume 19, June 2017 – Published 6 June 2017

D. Seipt, T. Heinzl, M. Marklund, and S. S. Bulanov, ‘Depletion of Intense Fields’. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 154803 – Published 14 April (2017).

2016:

N. P. Dover et al., ‘Buffered high charge spectrally-peaked proton beams in the relativistic-transparency regime’. New Journal of Physics, 18, 013038 (2016).

A. Aschikhin et al., ‘The FLASHForward facility at DESY’. Nuclear Instruments and methods in physics research A, 806, 175-183 (2016).

2015:

A. Martinez de la Ossa et al., ‘Wakefield-induced ionization injection in beam-driven plasma accelerators’. Physics of plasmas, 22, 093107 (2015).

J. H. Bin et al., ‘Ion Acceleration Using Relativistic Pulse Shaping in Near-Critical-Density Plasmas’. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 064801 (2015).

2014:

C. A. J. Palmer et al., ‘Manipulation of laser-generated energetic proton spectra in near critical density plasma’. Journal of Plasma Physics, Culham Thesis Prize Winners (2014) (doi:10.1017/S0022377814000798).

J. S. Green et al., ‘Enhanced proton beam collimation in the ultra-intense short pulse regime’ Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 56, 084001 (2014).

2013:

2012:

C. A. J. Palmer et al.,‘Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an ultrathin foil accelerated by the radiation pressure of an intense laser’ Physical Review Letters, 108, 225002 (2012)

S. Kneip et al., ‘Characterization of transverse beam emittance of electrons from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator in the bubble regime using betatron x-ray radiation’. Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams, 15, 021302 (2012)

2011:

Z. Najmudin et al., ‘Observation of impurity free monoenergetic proton beams from the interaction of a CO2 laser with a gaseous target’. Physics of Plasmas, 18, 056705 (2011)

M. J. V. Streeter et al., ‘Relativistic plasma surfaces as an efficient second harmonic generator’. New Journal of Physics, 13, 023041 (2011)

C. A. J. Palmer et al., ‘Monoenergetic proton beams accelerated by a radiation pressure driven shock’. Physical Review Letters, 106, 014801 (2011)

R. Prasad et al., ‘Proton acceleration using 50 fs, high intensity ASTRA-Gemini laser pulses’. Nuclear Instrumentation and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 653, 113-115 (2011)

R. Prasad et al., ‘Fast ion acceleration from thin foils irradiated by ultra-high intensity, ultra-high contrast laser pulses’. Applied Physics Letters, 99, 121504 (2011)

S. Kneip et al., ‘X-ray phase contrast imaging of biological specimens with femtosecond pulses of betatron radiation from a compact laser plasma wakefield accelerator’. Applied Physics Letters, 99, 093701 (2011)

I. V. Pogorelsky et al., ‘Laser-induced cavities and solitons in overcritical hydrogen plasmas’. Laser Physics, 21, 1288-1294 (2011)

S. Kneip et al., ‘Study of near-GeV acceleration of electrons in a non-linear plasma wave driven by a self-guided laser pulse’. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 53, 014008 (2011)

C. M. Huntington et al., ‘Current filamentation instability in laser wakefield accelerators’. Physical Review Letters, 106, 105001 (2011)

2010:

R. Prasad et al., ‘Calibration of Thomson parabola-MCP assembly for multi-MeV ion spectroscopy’.  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, 623, 712-715 (2010)

J. Schreiber et al., ‘Complete temporal characterization of asymmetric pulse compression in a laser wakefield’. Physical Review Letters, 105, 235003 (2010)

S. Kneip et al., ‘Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source’. Nature Physics, 6, 980-983 (2010)

C. Bellei et al., ‘Micron-scale fast electron filaments and recirculation determined from rear-side optical emission in high-intensity laser-solid interactions’. New Journal of Physics, 12, 073016 (2010)

D. C. Carroll et al., ‘Carbon ion acceleration from thin foil targets irradiated by ultrahigh-contrast, ultraintense laser pulses’. New Journal of Physics, 12, 045020 (2010)

T. P. A. Ibbotson et al., ‘Investigation of the role of plasma channels as waveguides for laser-wakefield accelerators’. New Journal of Physics, 12 045008 (2010)

T. P. A. Ibbotson et al., ‘Laser-wakefield acceleration of electron beams in a low density plasma channel’. Physical Review Special Topics Accelerators and Beams, 13, 3, 031301 (2010)

S. Kneip et al., ‘Near-GeV acceleration of electrons by a nonlinear plasma wave driven by a self -guided laser pulse’. Physical Review Letters, 103, 035002 (2009)