DrStuartMangles

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Reader in 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.

Publications

Journals

Behm K, Hussein AE, Zhao TZ, et al.Behm K, Hussein AE, Zhao TZ, Baggott RA, Cole JM, Hill E, Krushelnick K, Maksimchuk A, Nees J, Rose SJ, Thomas AGR, Watt R, Wood JC, Yanovsky V, Mangles SPD close, 2020, Demonstration of femtosecond broadband X-rays from laser wakefield acceleration as a source for pump-probe X-ray absorption studies, High Energy Density Physics, Vol:35, ISSN:1574-1818

Hoarty DJ, Morton J, Jeffery M, et al.Hoarty DJ, Morton J, Jeffery M, Pattison LK, Wardlow A, Mangles SPD, Rose SJ, Iglesias C, Opachich K, Heeter RF, Perry TS close, 2019, A proposal to measure iron opacity at conditions close to the solar convective zone-radiative zone boundary, High Energy Density Physics, Vol:32, ISSN:1574-1818, Pages:70-76

Arran C, Cole JM, Gerstmayr E, et al.Arran C, Cole JM, Gerstmayr E, Blackburn TG, Mangles SPD, Ridgers CP close, 2019, Optimal parameters for radiation reaction experiments, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol:61, ISSN:0741-3335, Pages:1-12

Baird CD, Murphy CD, Blackburn TG, et al.Baird CD, Murphy CD, Blackburn TG, Ilderton A, Mangles SPD, Marklund M, Ridgers CP close, 2019, Realising single-shot measurements of quantum radiation reaction in high-intensity lasers, New Journal of Physics, Vol:21, ISSN:1367-2630

Conference

Weikum MK, Akhter T, Alesini PD, et al.Weikum MK, Akhter T, Alesini PD, Alexandrova AS, Anania MP, Andreev NE, Andriyash I, Aschikhin A, Assmann RW, Audet T, Bacci A, Barna IF, Beaton A, Beck A, Beluze A, Bernhard A, Bielawski S, Bisesto FG, Brandi F, Bringer O, Brinkmann R, Bründermann E, Büscher M, Bussmann M, Bussolino GC, Chance A, Chanteloup JC, Chen M, Chiadroni E, Cianchi A, Clarke J, Cole J, Couprie ME, Croia M, Cros B, Crump P, Dattoli G, Delerue N, Delferriere O, Delinikolas P, De Nicola S, Dias J, Dorda U, Fedele R, Pousa AF, Ferrario M, Filippi F, Fils J, Fiore G, Fonseca RA, Galimberti M, Gallo A, Garzella D, Gastinel P, Giove D, Giribono A, Gizzi LA, Grüner FJ, Habib AF, Heinemann T, Hidding B, Holzer BJ, Hooker SM, Hosokai T, Hübner M, Irman A, Jafarinia F, Jaroszynski DA, Jaster-Merz S, Joshi C, Kaluza MC, Kando M, Karger OS, Karsch S, Khazanov E, Khikhlukha D, Knetsch A, Kocon D, Koester P, Kononenko O, Korn G, Kostyukov I, Kruchinin K, Labate L, Lechner C, Leemans WP, Lehrach A, Li FY, Li X, Libov V, Lifschitz A, Litvinenko V, Lu W, Lundh O, Maier AR, Malka V, Manahan GG, Mangles SPD, Marchetti B, Marocchino A close, 2019, EuPRAXIA - A compact, cost-efficient particle and radiation source, ISSN:0094-243X

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