ProfessorStuartMangles

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Laser-Plasma Physics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 9643stuart.mangles Website

Location

725Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

In my research, I use intense laser-plasma interactions to create new kinds of compact particle accelerators and X-ray light sources, and I exploit the unique properties of these sources to explore the physics of extreme conditions.

Particle accelerators are well known as important tools of scientific discovery, but they are large and expensive machines. The laser wakefield acceleration technique I research now allows high-energy particle and X-ray beams to be produced in a university size laboratory. Using these accelerators we can now produce multi-GeV electron beams in a plasma accelerator just a few centimetres long (something which a conventional accelerator can only achieve in one hundred metres or more).

The unique properties of the beams that laser wakefield accelerators produce, together with their co-location and easy synchronization with other high-power laser sources, are now helping to drive a new generation of experiments. These experiments aim to understand how matter behaves under extreme conditions – extremely high temperatures, densities and electromagnetic field intensities compared to anything found on Earth, but conditions that are surprisingly common and important throughout the universe.

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Journals

Kettle B, Hollatz D, Gerstmayr E, et al.Kettle B, Hollatz D, Gerstmayr E, Samarin GM, Alejo A, Astbury S, Baird C, Bohlen S, Campbell M, Colgan C, Dannheim D, Gregory C, Harsh H, Hatfield P, Hinojosa J, Katzir Y, Morton J, Murphy CD, Nurnberg A, Osterhoff J, Perez-Callejo G, Poder K, Rajeev PP, Roedel C, Roeder F, Salgado FC, Sarri G, Seidel A, Spannagel S, Spindloe C, Steinke S, Streeter MJ, Thomas AGR, Underwood C, Watt R, Zepf M, Rose SJ, Mangles SPD close, 2021, A laser-plasma platform for photon-photon physics: the two photon Breit-Wheeler process, New Journal of Physics, Vol:23, ISSN:1367-2630

Bradley LE, Streeter MJ, Murphy CD, et al.Bradley LE, Streeter MJ, Murphy CD, Arran C, Blackburn TG, Galletti M, Mangles SPD, Ridgers CP close, 2021, Effect of laser temporal intensity skew on enhancing pair production in laser-electron-beam collisions, New Journal of Physics, Vol:23, ISSN:1367-2630

Finlay OJ, Gruse JN, Thornton C, et al.Finlay OJ, Gruse JN, Thornton C, Allott R, Armstrong CD, Baird CD, Bourgeois N, Brenner C, Cipiccia S, Cole JM, Gregory C, Jamison S, Katzir Y, Lopes NC, Mangles SPD, Murphy CD, Najmudin Z, Neely D, Pickard LR, Potter KD, Rajeev PP, Rusby D, Selwood MP, Symes DR, Underwood CID, Wood JC, Thomas AGR, Streeter MJ close, 2021, Characterisation of a laser plasma betatron source for high resolution x-ray imaging, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol:63, ISSN:0741-3335

Baggott RA, Rose S, Mangles SPD, 2021, Temperature equilibration due to charge state fluctuations in dense plasmas, Physical Review Letters, Vol:27, ISSN:0031-9007

Danson CN, White M, Barr JRM, et al.Danson CN, White M, Barr JRM, Bett T, Blyth P, Bowley D, Brenner C, Collins RJ, Croxford N, Dangor AEB, Devereux L, Dyer PE, Dymoke-Bradshaw A, Edwards CB, Ewart P, Ferguson AI, Girkin JM, Hall DR, Hanna DC, Harris W, Hillier DI, Hooker CJ, Hooker SM, Hopps N, Hull J, Hunt D, Jaroszynski DA, Kempenaars M, Kessler H, Knight PL, Knight S, Knowles A, Lewis CLS, Lipton KS, Littlechild A, Littlechild J, Maggs P, Malcolm GPA, Mangles SPD, Martin W, McKenna P, Moore RO, Morrison C, Najmudin Z, Neely D, New GHC, Norman MJ, Paine T, Parker AW, Penman RR, Pert GJ, Pietraszewski C, Randewich A, Rizvi NH, Seddon N, Sheng Z-M, Slater D, Smith RA, Spindloe C, Taylor R, Thomas G, Tisch JWG, Wark JS, Webb C, Wiggins SM, Willford D, Winstone T close, 2021, A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom, High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol:9, ISSN:2095-4719, Pages:1-86

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