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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

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