Publications

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

McQueen Christopher JG, Wilson Robbie, Frazer Timothy P, King Martin, Alderton Matthew, Bacon Ewan FJ, Dolier Ewan J, Dzelzainis Thomas, Patel Jesel K, Peat Maia P, Torrance Ben C, Gray Ross J, McKenna Paul

Communications Physics Vol 8 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-025-01984-8

Stable laser-acceleration of high-flux proton beams with plasma collimation

Streeter M J V, Glenn G D, Dilorio S, Treffert F, Loughran B, Ahmed H, Astbury S, Borghesi M, Bourgeois N, Curry C B, Dann S J D, Dover N P, Dzelzainis T, Ettlinger O C, Gauthier M, Giuffrida L, Glenzer S H, Gray R J, Green J S, Hicks G S, Hyland C, Istokskaia V, King M, Margarone D, McCusker O, McKenna P, Najmudin Z, Parisuaña C, Parsons P, Spindloe C, Symes D R, Thomas AGR, Xu N, Palmer C A J

Nature Communications Vol 16 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56248-4

Commissioning of a high repetition rate ion source target area at the SCAPA facility

Dolier Ewan, Wilson Robbie, Torrance Ben, Peat Romero Maia, Alderton Matthew, McQueen Christopher, Wiggins Mark, Manahan Grace, Brunetti Enrico, Li Wentao, Jaroszynski Dino, Gray Ross, McKenna Paul

2024 Christmas Meeting of the High Power Laser User Community (2024)

A scintillating fiber imaging spectrometer for active characterization of laser-driven proton beams

Patel J K, Armstrong C D, Wilson R, Alderton M, Dolier E J, Frazer T P, Horne A, Lofrese A, Peat M, Woodward M, Zielbauer B, Clarke R J, Deas R, Rajeev P P, Gray R J, McKenna P

High Power Laser Science and Engineering Vol 12 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2024.62

A search using GEO600 for gravitational waves coincident with fast radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154

, Andia M, Ben Yaala M, Brooks A F, Brown B C, Brown D D, Carlin J B, Carter J J, Chan J C L, Chen D, Chen H Y, Chen H Y, Chen J, Chen K H, Chen Y, Cheng H P, Chou C, Clark J A, Clarke J, Clarke T A, Collins J, Costa C A, Craig K, Cumming A, Darroch K E, Davis P J, Ding J, Evans M, Fazio M, Ferguson D L, Fleming L S, Gallagher H, Ganguly A, Gardner J W, Gardner K A, George J, Gibson D R, Gibson D R, Gier C, Grassia P, Gray A, Gray C, Gray R, Green A C, Green S M, Green S M, Guo H, Guo Y, Gupta P, Gupta S K, Hall E D, Hamilton E Z, Han W-B, Hanson J, Hendry M, Hewitt A L, Hill S, Hough J, Hu Q, Huang Y-J, Iqbal M H, Jadhav S J, Jadhav S J, Jiang J, Johnston M C, Johnston R, Jones D H, Jones D H, Jones R, Ju L, Khan F, Khan I, Kim C, Kim J C, Kim K, Kim M H, Kim S, Kinnear M, Kumar A, Lawrence J, Lawrence M N, Lee H W, Lee H W, Lee R, Lee R, Lee S, Li T G F, Li X, Li Z, Lin F, Lin L C-C, Liu G C, Liu Jian, Longo A, Ma L-T, Macleod D M, Malik A, Martin I W, Martin R M, Martinez V, McLeod A, Miller A L, Miller S, Mitchell A L, Mitchell J G, Moore C J, Morgan C, Murray P G, Oliveira A S, Pan J, Pandey S, Paul S, Qi H, Reid S, Richardson J W, Robertson C, Robinson M, Ross M P, Roy S K, Roy S K, Sanchez A, Scott J, Sharma A K, Shaw M R, Singh A, Singh S, Smith J R, Smith L, Smith R J E, Smith W J, Sun L, Talbot C, Tang D, Tao L, Thomas M, Thompson J E, Todd M R, Wade M, Wallace G S, Wallace L, Wang H, Wang J Z, Wang W H, Wang Z, Warner J, Weaver B R, Weaver B R, Williams D, Williams M J, Williams N S, Wright M, Wu C, Wu H, Xu Y, Yang K Z, Yang Y, Yu H, Zhang L, Zhang R, Zhang T, Zhang Y, Zhao C, Zheng Y, Zhu X-J, Zhu Z-H

The Astrophysical Journal Vol 977 (2024)

https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad8de0

Machine learning guided optimisation of fast electron temperature in laser-solid interaction experiments

Peat Romero Maia, Dolier Ewan, King Martin, Wilson Robbie, Frazer Timothy, Alderton Matthew, Bacon Ewan, Patel Jesel, Torrance Ben, Nayli Radhika, Dzelzainis Thomas, Gray Ross, McKenna Paul

50th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics (2024)

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Professional Activities

Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Ultra-Thin Targetry

Contributor

15/1/2025

Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Ultra-Thin Targetry

Contributor

16/12/2024

ARISE: Algorithm for Rapid Ion Spectrum Extraction

Speaker

16/12/2024

Synthetic Diagnostics of Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration

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16/12/2024

Progress Towards High Repetition-Rate Laser-Driven Ion Sources at SCAPA

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24/5/2024

Machine learning guided optimisation of fast electron temperature in laser-solid interaction experiments

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22/5/2024

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Projects

Relativistic plasma apertures: Generating ultraintense structured light with orbital angular momentum (Responsive Mode)

McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) King, Martin (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 29-Jan-2028

DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Leena Sadasivan Nair, Sreejith Sadan

McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Leena Sadasivan Nair, Sreejith Sadan (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028

Bayesian optimisation of inertial confinement fusion in multi-scale simulations

McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2028

The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications

Whyte, Colin (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025

Optimisation and control of laser-driven radiation sources using machine learning

Gray, Ross (Principal Investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026

Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2022 | Torrance, Ben

McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Torrance, Ben (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026

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