
Dr Brian McNeil
Professor
Physics
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Prize And Awards
- Free Electron Laser Prize
- Recipient
- 25/8/2022
- Institute of Physics Particle Accelerator & Beams Group Prize for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Accelerator Science & Technology.
- Recipient
- 25/7/2022
- Elected Fellow Institute of Physics
- Recipient
- 2010
- Member of the Free Electron Laser Working Group for the STFC New Light Source project
- Recipient
- 2007
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Publications
- Superradiant pulse saturation in a Free Electron Laser
- Pongchalee Pornthep, McNeil Brian WJ
- Results in Physics Vol 60 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2024.107673
- Unaveraged simulations of a cavity based free electron laser
- Pongchalee Pornthep, McNeil Brian
- Results in Physics Vol 57 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2024.107390
- Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator
- Pongchalee Pornthep, McNeil Brian
- Optics Express Vol 31, pp. 26673-26684 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.494481
- Femtosecond polarization shaping of free-electron laser pulses
- Perosa Giovanni, Watzel Jonas, Garzella David, Allaria Enrico, Bonanomi Matteo, Danailov Miltcho Boyanov, Brynes Alexander, Callegari Carlo, De Ninno Giovanni, Demidovich Alexander, Di Fraia Michele, Di Mitri Simone, Giannessi Luca, Manfredda Michele, Novinec Luka, Pal Nitish, Penco Giuseppe, Plekan Oksana, Prince Kevin C, Simoncig Alberto, Spampinati Simone, Spezzani Carlo, Zangrando Marco, Berakdar Jamal, Feifel Raimund, Squibb Richard J, Coffee Ryan, Hemsing Erik, Roussel Eleonore, Sansone Giuseppe, McNeil Brian, Ribic Primoz Rebernik
- Physical Review Letters Vol 131 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.045001
- Up-sampling of electron beam simulation particles with addition of shot-noise
- Traczykowski P, Campbell L T, McNeil B W J
- Computer Physics Communications Vol 286 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108661
- Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit
- Habib A F, Manahan GG, Scherkl P, Heinemann T, Sutherland A, Altuiri R, Alotaibi B M, Litos M, Cary J, Raubenheimer T, Hemsing E, Hogan M, Rosenzweig J B, Williams P H, McNeil B W J, Hidding B
- Nature Communications Vol 17 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36592-z
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Professional Activities
- FEL techniques for Coherence and photon pulse manipulation
- Speaker
- 27/6/2018
- Nature Communications (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2017
- Institute of Physics (External organisation)
- Chair
- 9/2016
- Physics and Applications of High Brightness Beams
- Member of programme committee
- 28/3/2016
- PhD External Examiner
- External Examiner
- 22/3/2016
- Hesham Fares
- Host
- 15/5/2015
Projects
- STFC Lancaster Cockcroft 2021 DTP - Lily Berman
- McNeil, Brian (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Cockcroft Phase 4
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Exploratory Study of PWFA-FEL at CLARA (PPRP)
- McNeil, Brian (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2024
- Cockcroft Institute / R160525-1
- Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) McKenna, Paul (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2022
- Cockcroft Institute
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Cross, Adrian (Co-investigator) Eliasson, Bengt (Co-investigator) Gray, Ross (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Jaroszynski, Dino (Co-investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Ronald, Kevin (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator) Zhang, Liang (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 31-Jan-2022
- KSL Access to SHAHEEN II: Plasma acceleration-based advanced light sources for material, natural and life sciences
- Manahan, Grace (Co-investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Principal Investigator) McNeil, Brian (Co-investigator) Campbell, Lawrence (Co-investigator) Hala, Ahmed (Co-investigator)
- HPC access to SHAHEEN II supercomputer at KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory.
- 01-Jan-2016 - 30-Jan-2017