George Hicks

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Academic Visitor

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 7643g.hicks11

Location

733Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Plasma Physics group and the John Adams Institute at Imperial College

Research Interests

Ion Acceleration from High Intensity Laser Plasma Interactions

Exploring novel regimes of ion and proton acceleration from high intensity laser plasma interactions, specifically gas targets
Experiments at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Numerical Particle-In-Cell simulations of laser plasma interactions

Publications

Journals

McIlvenny A, Doria D, Romagnani L, et al.McIlvenny A, Doria D, Romagnani L, Ahmed H, Booth N, Ditter EJ, Ettlinger OC, Hicks GS, Martin P, Scott GG, Williamson SDR, Macchi A, McKenna P, Najmudin Z, Neely D, Kar S, Borghesi M close, 2021, Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure, Physical Review Letters, Vol:127, ISSN:0031-9007

Dover NP, Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, et al.Dover NP, Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, Kondo K, Lowe HF, Alkhimova MA, Ditter EJ, Ettlinger OC, Faenov AY, Hata M, Hicks GS, Iwata N, Kiriyama H, Koga JK, Miyahara T, Najmudin Z, Pikuz TA, Pirozhkov AS, Sagisaka A, Schramm U, Sentoku Y, Watanabe Y, Ziegler T, Zeil K, Kando M, Kondo K close, 2020, Demonstration of repetitive energetic proton generation by ultra-intense laser interaction with a tape target, High Energy Density Physics, Vol:37, ISSN:1574-1818, Pages:100847-100847

Kondo K, Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, et al.Kondo K, Nishiuchi M, Sakaki H, Dover NP, Lowe HF, Miyahara T, Watanabe Y, Ziegler T, Zeil K, Schramm U, Ditter EJ, Hicks GS, Ettlinger OC, Najmudin Z, Kiriyama H, Kando M, Kondo K close, 2020, High-intensity laser-driven oxygen source from CW laser-heated titanium tape targets, Crystals, Vol:10, ISSN:2073-4352, Pages:837-837

Nishiuchi M, Dover NP, Hata M, et al.Nishiuchi M, Dover NP, Hata M, Sakaki H, Kondo K, Lowe HF, Miyahara T, Kiriyama H, Koga JK, Iwata N, Alkhimova MA, Pirozhkov AS, Faenov AY, Pikuz TA, Sagisaka A, Watanabe Y, Kando M, Kondo K, Ditter EJ, Ettlinger OC, Hicks GS, Najmudin Z, Ziegler T, Zeil K, Schramm U, Sentoku Y close, 2020, Dynamics of laser-driven heavy-ion acceleration clarified by ion charge states, Physical Review Research, Vol:2, ISSN:2643-1564, Pages:033081 – 1-033081 – 13

Passalidis S, Ettlinger OC, Hicks GS, et al.Passalidis S, Ettlinger OC, Hicks GS, Dover NP, Najmudin Z, Benis EP, Kaselouris E, Papadogiannis NA, Tatarakis M, Dimitriou V close, 2020, Hydrodynamic computational modelling and simulations of collisional shock waves in gas jet targets, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol:8, ISSN:2095-4719

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