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Professor Alec Thomas

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    Monoenergetic electronic beam production using dual collinear laser pulses

    Thomas, A. G. R., Murphy, C. D., Mangles, S. P. D., Dangor, A. E., Foster, P., Gallacher, J. G., Jaroszynski, D. A., Kamperidis, C., Lancaster, K. L., Norreys, P. A., Viskup, R., Krushelnick, K. & Najmudin, Z., 27/06/2008, In: Physical review letters. 100, 25, 4 p., 255002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Narrow Energy Spread Protons and Ions from High-Intensity, High-Contrast Laser Solid Target Interactions

    Dollar, F., Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Davis, J., Kalintchenko, G., Petrov, G., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Yanovsky, V., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 2010, ADVANCED ACCELERATOR CONCEPTS. Gold, S. H. & Nusinovich, G. S. (eds.). AMER INST PHYSICS, p. 710-714 5 p. (AIP Conference Proceedings; vol. 1299).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  3. Published

    Observation of a Long-Wavelength Hosing Modulation of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse in Underdense Plasma

    Kaluza, M. C., Mangles, S. P. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Najmudin, Z., Dangor, A. E., Murphy, C. D., Collier, J. L., Divall, E. J., Foster, P. S., Hooker, C. J., Langley, A. J., Smith, J. & Krushelnick, K., 26/08/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 9, 4 p., 095003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Observation of mono‐energetic structures in the spectrum of laser wakefield accelerated electrons

    Murphy, C. D., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Thomas, A. G. R., Collier, J. L., Dangor, A. E., Divall, E. J., Foster, P. S., Gallacher, J. G., Hooker, C. J., Jaroszynski, D. A., Langley, A. J., Mori, W. B., Norreys, P. A., Viskup, R., Walton, B. & Krushelnick, K., 7/12/2004, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 737, 1, p. 853-857 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    On electron betatron motion and electron injection in laser wakefield accelerators

    Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Cummings, P. G., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Dollar, F., Horovitz, Y., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Rousseau, P., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V. & Maksimchuk, A., 08/2014, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 56, 8, 7 p., 084009.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    On the design of experiments to study extreme field limits

    Bulanov, S. S., Chen, M., Schroeder, C. B., Esarey, E., Leemans, W. P., Bulanov, S. V., Esirkepov, T. Z., Kando, M., Koga, J. K., Zhidkov, A. G., Chen, P., Mur, V. D., Narozhny, N. B., Popov, V. S., Thomas, A. G. R. & Korn, G., 12/2012, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 1507, 1, p. 825-830 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    On the stability of laser wakefield electron accelerators in the monoenergetic regime

    Mangles, S. P. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Lundh, O., Lindau, F., Kaluza, M. C., Persson, A., Wahlstrom, C.-G., Krushelnick, K. & Najmudin, Z., 1/05/2007, In: Physics of Plasmas. 14, 5, 056702.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  8. Published

    Optical physics: antimatter creation in an X-ray bath

    Thomas, A., 06/2014, In: Nature Photonics. 8, 6, p. 429-431 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debatepeer-review

  9. Published

    Optical probing of high-intensity laser interactions with underdense plasmas using the VULCAN petawatt laser facility

    Nilson, P. M., Mangles, S. P. D., Willingale, L., Kaluza, M. C., Thomas, A. G. R., Najmudin, Z., Evans, R. G., Dangor, A. E., Krushelnick, K., Tatarakis, M., Clarke, R. J., Lancaster, K. L., Hernandez-Gomez, C., Karsch, S. & Schreiber, J., 06/2006, In: Journal de Physique 4. 133, p. 543-547 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Photon acceleration and modulational instability during wakefield excitation using long laser pulses

    Trines, R. M. G. M., Murphy, C. D., Lancaster, K. L., Chekhlov, O., Norreys, P. A., Bingham, R., Mendonça, J. T., Silva, L. O., Mangles, S. P. D., Kamperidis, C., Thomas, A. G. R., Krushelnick, K. & Najmudin, Z., 02/2009, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51, 2

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Plasma cavitation in ultraintense laser interactions with underdense helium plasmas

    Nilson, P. M., Mangles, S. P. D., Willingale, L., Kaluza, M. C., Thomas, A. G. R., Tatarakis, M., Clarke, R. J., Lancaster, K. L., Karsch, S., Schreiber, J., Najmudin, Z., Dangor, A. E. & Krushelnick, K., 30/04/2010, In: New Journal of Physics. 12, 10 p., 045014.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Proton acceleration from high-contrast short pulse lasers interacting with sub-micron thin foils

    Petrov, G. M., McGuffey, C., Thomas, A. G. R., Krushelnick, K. & Beg, F. N., 7/02/2016, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 119, 5, 5 p., 053302.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Proton deflectometry of a magnetic reconnection geometry

    Willingale, L., Nilson, P. M., Kaluza, M. C., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Fernandes, P., Haines, M. G., Kamperidis, C., Kingham, R. J., Ridgers, C. P., Sherlock, M., Thomas, A. G. R., Wei, M. S., Najmudin, Z., Krushelnick, K., Bandyopadhyay, S., Notley, M., Minardi, S., Tatarakis, M. & Rozmus, W., 9/04/2010, In: Physics of Plasmas. 17, 4, 5 p., 043104.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. Published

    Proton Probe Imaging of Fields Within a Laser-Generated Plasma Channel

    Willingale, L., Nilson, P. M., Thomas, A. G. R., Cobble, J., Craxton, R. S., Maksimchuk, A., Norreys, P. A., Sangster, T. C., Scott, R. H. H., Stoeckl, C., Zulick, C. & Krushelnick, K., 11/2011, In: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 39, 11, p. 2616-2617 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Proton probe measurement of fast advection of magnetic fields by hot electrons

    Willingale, L., Thomas, A. G. R., Nilson, P. M., Kaluza, M. C., Bandyopadhyay, S., Dangor, A. E., Evans, R. G., Fernandes, P., Haines, M. G., Kamperidis, C., Kingham, R. J., Minardi, S., Notley, M., Ridgers, C. P., Rozmus, W., Sherlock, M., Tatarakis, M., Wei, M. S., Najmudin, Z. & Krushelnick, K., 12/2011, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 53, 12, 9 p., 124026.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Rapid self-magnetization of laser speckles in plasmas by nonlinear anisotropic instability

    Thomas, A. G. R., Kingham, R. J. & Ridgers, C. P., 3/03/2009, In: New Journal of Physics. 11, 11 p., 033001.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    Response to “Comment on ‘Scalings for radiation from plasma bubbles’ ” [Phys. Plasmas 18, 034701 (2011)]

    Thomas, A. G. R., 1/03/2011, In: Physics of Plasmas. 18, 3, 034702.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    Scaling High-Order Harmonic Generation from Laser-Solid Interactions to Ultrahigh Intensity

    Dollar, F., Cummings, P., Chvykov, V., Willingale, L., Vargas, M., Yanovsky, V., Zulick, C., Maksimchuk, A., Thomas, A. G. R. & Krushelnick, K., 24/04/2013, In: Physical review letters. 110, 17, 5 p., 175002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Scalings for radiation from plasma bubbles

    Thomas, A. G. R., 03/2010, In: Physics of Plasmas. 17, 5, 056708.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Schwinger Limit Attainability with Extreme Power Lasers

    Bulanov, S. S., Esirkepov, T. Z., Thomas, A. G. R., Koga, J. K. & Bulanov, S. V., 24/11/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 22, 4 p., 220407.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Self-guided wakefield experiments driven by petawatt-class ultrashort laser pulses

    Mangles, S. P. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Bellei, C., Dangor, A. E., Kamperidis, C., Kneip, S., Nagel, S. R., Willingale, L. & Najmudin, Z., 08/2008, In: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 36, 4, p. 1715-1721 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Self-injection threshold in self-guided laser wakefield accelerators

    Mangles, S. P. D., Genoud, G., Bloom, M. S., Burza, M., Najmudin, Z., Persson, A., Svensson, K., Thomas, A. G. R. & Wahlstrom, C.-G., 19/01/2012, In: Physical Review Special Topics: Accelerators and Beams. 15, 6 p., 011302.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    Spectral and spatial characterisation of laser-driven positron beams

    Sarri, G., Warwick, J., Schumaker, W., Poder, K., Cole, J., Doria, D., Dzelzainis, T., Krushelnick, K., Kuschel, S., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Romagnani, L., Samarin, G. M., Symes, D., Thomas, A. G. R., Yeung, M. & Zepf, M., 01/2017, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 59, 1, 7 p., 014015.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Spin polarization of electrons by ultraintense lasers

    Del Sorbo, D., Seipt, D., Blackburn, T. G., Thomas, A. G. R., Murphy, C. D., Kirk, J. G. & Ridgers, C. P., 11/10/2017, In: Physical review a. 96, 4, 5 p., 043407.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Stereolithography based method of creating custom gas density profile targets for high intensity laser-plasma experiments

    Jolly, S. W., He, Z., McGuffey, C., Schumaker, W., Krushelnick, K. & Thomas, A. G. R., 07/2012, In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 83, 7, 5 p., 073503.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Stimulated Raman Side Scattering in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

    Matsuoka, T., McGuffey, C., Cummings, P. G., Horovitz, Y., Dollar, F., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Rousseau, P., Yanovsky, V., Bulanov, S. S., Thomas, A. G. R., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 14/07/2010, In: Physical review letters. 105, 3, 4 p., 034801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    Strong Radiation-Damping Effects in a Gamma-Ray Source Generated by the Interaction of a High-Intensity Laser with a Wakefield-Accelerated Electron Beam

    Thomas, A. G. R., Ridgers, C. P., Bulanov, S. S., Griffin, B. J. & Mangles, S. P. D., 19/10/2012, In: Physical Review X. 2, 4, 13 p., 041004.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    Summary Report of Working Group 1: Laser‐Plasma Acceleration

    Geddes, C. G. R., Clayton, C., Lu, W. & Thomas, A. G. R., 11/2010, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 1299, 1, p. 79-87 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Surface waves and electron acceleration from high-power, kilojoule-class laser interactions with underdense plasma

    Willingale, L., Thomas, A. G. R., Nilson, P. M., Chen, H., Cobble, J., Craxton, R. S., Maksimchuk, A., Norreys, P. A., Sangster, T. C., Scott, R. H. H., Stoeckl, C., Zulick, C. & Krushelnick, K., 18/02/2013, In: New Journal of Physics. 15, 14 p., 025023.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    Synchrotron Radiation from a Laser Plasma Accelerator in the Bubble Regime

    Kneip, S., McGuffey, C., Chvykov, V., Dollar, F., Kalintchenko, G., Maksimchuk, A., Mangles, S. P. D., Matsuoka, T., Nagel, S. R., Palmer, C. A. J., Schreiber, J., Phuoc, K. T., Thomas, A. G. R., Krushelnick, K. & Najmudin, Z., 4/11/2010, In: AIP Conference Proceedings. 1299, 1, p. 185-190 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Synchrotron x-ray radiation from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams in a plasma channel

    Matsuoka, T., Kneip, S., McGuffey, C., Palmer, C. A. J., Schreiber, J., Huntington, C., Horovitz, Y., Dollar, F., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V., Phuoc, K. T., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Maksimchuk, A. & Krushelnick, K., 2010, In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 244, 4, 4 p., 042026.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  32. Published

    Table-Top Laser-Based Source of Femtosecond, Collimated, Ultrarelativistic Positron Beams

    Sarri, G., Schumaker, W., Di Piazza, A., Vargas, M., Dromey, B., Dieckmann, M. E., Chvykov, V., Maksimchuk, A., Yanovsky, V., He, Z. H., Hou, B. X., Nees, J. A., Thomas, A. G. R., Keitel, C. H., Zepf, M. & Krushelnick, K., 20/06/2013, In: Physical review letters. 110, 25, 5 p., 255002.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  33. Published

    Target surface area effects on hot electron dynamics from high intensity laser-plasma interactions

    Zulick, C., Raymond, A., McKelvey, A., Chvykov, V., Maksimchuk, A., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Yanovsky, V. & Krushelnick, K., 15/06/2016, In: New Journal of Physics. 18, 7 p., 063020.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  34. Published

    The effect of laser focusing conditions in laser wakefield acceleration experiments

    Thomas, A. G. R., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Murphy, C. D., Dangor, A. E., Rozmus, W., Krushelnick, K., Foster, P. S., Norreys, P. A., Gallacher, J. G., Jaroszynski, D. A. & Mori, W. B., 21/06/2006, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. IEEE, (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  35. Published

    The effect of nonlinear quantum electrodynamics on relativistic transparency and laser absorption in ultra-relativistic plasmas

    Zhang, P., Ridgers, C. P. & Thomas, A. G. R., 24/04/2015, In: New Journal of Physics. 17, 11 p., 043051.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  36. Published

    The generation of mono-energetic electron beams from ultrashort pulse laser–plasma interactions

    Mangles, S. P. D., Krushelnick, K., Najmudin, Z., Wei, M. S., Walton, B., Gopal, A., Dangor, A. E., Fritzler, S., Murphy, C. D., Thomas, A. G. R., Mori, W. B., Gallacher, J. G., Jaroszynski, D., Norreys, P. A. & Viskup, R., 15/03/2006, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. 364, p. 663-677 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    The International Laser Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2015 (Guadeloupe, May 10–15)

    Malka, V., Lambert, G., Flacco, A. & Thomas, A. G. R., 22/01/2016, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 58, 3, 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  38. Published

    Theory of radiative electron polarization in strong laser fields

    Seipt, D., Del Sorbo, D., Ridgers, C. P. & Thomas, A. G. R., 20/08/2018, In: Physical review a. 98, 2, 19 p., 023417.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published
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  40. Published

    Transport in the presence of inverse bremsstrahlung heating and magnetic fields

    Ridgers, C. P., Thomas, A. G. R., Kingham, R. J. & Robinson, A. P. L., 1/09/2008, In: Physics of Plasmas. 15, 9, 092311.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Ultrafast Electron Radiography of Magnetic Fields in High-Intensity Laser-Solid Interactions

    Schumaker, W., Nakanii, N., McGuffey, C., Zulick, C., Chyvkov, V., Dollar, F., Habara, H., Kalintchenko, G., Maksimchuk, A., Tanaka, K. A., Thomas, A. G. R., Yanovsky, V. & Krushelnick, K., 2/01/2013, In: Physical review letters. 110, 1, 5 p., 015003.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  42. Published

    Ultrahigh Brilliance Multi-MeV gamma-Ray Beams from Nonlinear Relativistic Thomson Scattering

    Sarri, G., Corvan, D. J., Schumaker, W., Cole, J. M., Di Piazza, A., Ahmed, H., Harvey, C., Keitel, C. H., Krushelnick, K., Mangles, S. P. D., Najmudin, Z., Symes, D., Thomas, A. G. R., Yeung, M., Zhao, Z. & Zepf, M., 25/11/2014, In: Physical review letters. 113, 22, 5 p., 224801.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  43. Published

    Ultra-intense laser neutron generation through efficient deuteron acceleration

    Zulick, C., Dollar, F., Chvykov, V., Davis, J., Kalinchenko, G., Maksimchuk, A., Petrov, G. M., Raymond, A., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Yanovsky, V. & Krushelnick, K., 7/05/2013, In: Proceedings of SPIE. 8779, 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  44. Published

    Ultrashort pulse filamentation and monoenergetic electron beam production in LWFAs

    Thomas, A. G. R., Mangles, S. P. D., Murphy, C. D., Dangor, A. E., Foster, P. S., Gallacher, J. G., Jaroszynski, D. A., Kamperidis, C., Krushelnick, K. & Lancaster, K. L., 02/2009, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 51, 2, 12 p., 024010.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  45. Published

    Visualization of plasma bubble accelerators using Frequency-Domain Shadowgraphy: ICHED 2009 - 2nd International Conference on High Energy Density Physics

    Dong, P., Reed, S. A., Yi, S. A., Kalmykov, S. Y., Shvets, G., Downer, M. C., Matlis, N. H., Leemans, W. P., McGuffey, C., Bulanov, S. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Matsuoka, T., Thomas, A. G. R. & Yanovsky, V., 06/2010, In: High Energy Density Physics. 6, 2, p. 153-156 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    Vlasov simulations of thermal plasma waves with relativistic phase velocity in a Lorentz boosted frame

    Thomas, A. G. R., 9/11/2016, In: Physical Review E. 94, 5, 11 p., 053204.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  47. Published

    X-Ray imaging of ultrafast magnetic reconnection driven by relativistic electrons.

    Raymond, A., McKelvey, A., Zulick, C., Maksimchuk, A., Thomas, A. G. R., Willingale, L., Chykov, V., Yanovsky, V. & Krushelnick, K., 13/04/2015, In: Proceedings of SPIE. 9514, 6 p., 951410.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  48. Published

    X-ray phase contrast imaging of biological specimens with femtosecond pulses of betatron radiation from a compact laser plasma wakefield accelerator

    Kneip, S., McGuffey, C., Dollar, F., Bloom, M. S., Chvykov, V., Kalintchenko, G., Krushelnick, K., Maksimchuk, A., Mangles, S. P. D., Matsuoka, T., Najmudin, Z., Palmer, C. A. J., Schreiber, J., Schumaker, W., Thomas, A. G. R. & Yanovsky, V., 29/08/2011, In: Applied Physics Letters. 99, 9, 3 p., 093701.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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