Professor Zheng-Ming Sheng
Visiting Professor
Physics
Personal statement
The continuous development of ultrashort pulsed high power lasers over the last 30 years has carved out new scientific frontiers, such as advanced table-top accelerators of charged particles, advanced laser fusion concepts, laboratory astrophysics, high field QED physics, and so on. In addition to academic interest, some of them are closely relevant to medical and industrial applications. For almost 30 years, I have worked on the fundamental physics of relativistic laser-plasma interactions and their applications in advanced particle accelerators and novel radiation sources, inertial confined fusion, high energy density physics, and laboratory astrophysics by theory and numerical simulations, etc. I have led a theory group and trained over 25 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in the last 17 years, and established wide collaboration with groups from China, Japan, India, Germany, UK, and USA. I have coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed papers with H-index 52 (in google scholars: http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=GBjZ0pYAAAAJ).
Area of Expertise
- Physics of laser plasma interactions
- Laser plasma based particle acceleration and radiation
- Physics of inertial confined fusion
- Theory and numerical simulation
Prize And Awards
- Fellow of Institute of Physics
- Recipient
- 10/2015
- Fellow of American Physical Society
- Recipient
- 10/2013
Publications
- Numerical studies of collinear laser-assisted injection from a foil for plasma wakefield accelerators
- Wilson TC, Farmer J, Pukhov A, Sheng Z-M, Hidding B
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams Vol 27 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.27.071301
- Role of spontaneous thermal emissions in inflationary laser Raman instability
- Eliasson B, Dieckmann M E, Jiang X Y, Sheng Z M, Liu C S
- Physics of Plasmas Vol 31 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0188949
- Tailored mesoscopic plasma accelerates electrons exploiting parametric instability
- Kumar Rakesh Y, Sabui Ratul, Gopal R, Li Feiyu, Sarkar Soubhik, Trickey William, Anand M, Pasley John, Sheng Z-M, Trines R M G M, Scott R H H, Robinson A P L, Sharma V, Krishnamurthy M
- New Journal of Physics Vol 26 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ad2ffc
- Shaped liquid drops generate MeV temperature electron beams with millijoule class laser
- Mondal Angana, Sabui Ratul, Tata Sheroy, Trines R M G M, Rahul S V, Li Feiyu, Sarkar Soubhik, Trickey William, Kumar Rakesh Y, Rajak Debobrata, Pasley John, Sheng Zhengming, Jha Jagannath, Anand M, Gopal Ram, Robinson A P L, Krishnamurthy M
- Communications Physics Vol 7 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01550-8
- Anomalous hot electron generation via stimulated Raman scattering in plasma with up-ramp density profiles
- Jiang XY, Weng SM, Ma HH, Wu CF, Liu Z, Chen M, Eliasson B, Sheng ZM
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Vol 66 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad230a
- Plasma photocathodes
- Habib Ahmad Fahim, Heinemann Thomas, Manahan Grace G, Ullmann Daniel, Scherkl Paul, Knetsch Alexander, Sutherland Andrew, Beaton Andrew, Campbell David, Rutherford Lorne, Boulton Lewis, Nutter Alastair, Karger Oliver S, Litos Michael D, O’Shea Brendon D, Andonian Gerard, Bruhwiler David L, Pretzler Georg, Wilson Thomas, Sheng Zhengming, Stumpf Michael, Reichwein Lars, Pukhov Alexander, Cary John R, Hogan Mark J, Yakimenko Vitaly, Rosenzweig James B, Hidding Bernhard
- Annalen der Physik Vol 535 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.202200655
Teaching
I am involved in teaching the course of "Laser driven plasma acceleration" both in the department of physics and SUPA and the 3rd year lab teaching.
Research Interests
Relativistic laser-plasma interaction, laser-driven particle acceleration, novel radiation from terahertz to X and gamma-ray radiations, laser-driven high energy density physics (including laboratory astrophysics).
Professional Activities
- Multistage coupling of laser wakefield accelerators
- Speaker
- 17/12/2018
- Relativistic laser plasma for physics at extreme: from attosecond light sources to nonlinear QED physics
- Speaker
- 5/11/2018
- Plasma photonics for applications: from laser particle accelerator to laser fusion
- Speaker
- 21/10/2018
- Suppression of parametric instabilities with decoupled broadband lasers in plasma and fast ignition of ICF with magnetized targets
- Speaker
- 20/3/2018
- Summary of Laser Plasma Sessions
- Speaker
- 22/9/2017
- Studies of laser plasma based electron acceleration and radiation
- Speaker
- 17/7/2017
Projects
- Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 2023-
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Apr-2022 - 31-Mar-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-Apr-2021 - 31-Mar-2025
- Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2
- McKenna, Paul (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2020 - 31-Mar-2024
- DESY Contribution of Studentship Evangelos Matzoukas
- Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Principal Investigator)
- 31-Mar-2019 - 30-Sep-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Matzoukas, Evangelos
- Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Principal Investigator) Hidding, Bernhard (Co-investigator) Matzoukas, Evangelos (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Oct-2021
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | Nutter, Alastair
- Hidding, Bernhard (Principal Investigator) Sheng, Zheng-Ming (Co-investigator) Nutter, Alastair (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2018 - 01-Apr-2022
Contact
Professor
Zheng-Ming
Sheng
Visiting Professor
Physics
Email: z.sheng@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted