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

Gruse J-N, Streeter MJV, Thornton C, et al.Gruse J-N, Streeter MJV, Thornton C, Armstrong CD, Baird CD, Bourgeois N, Cipiccia S, Finlay OJ, Gregory CD, Katzir Y, Lopes NC, Mangles SPD, Najmudin Z, Neely D, Pickard LR, Potter KD, Rajeev PP, Rusby DR, Underwood CID, Warnett JM, Williams MA, Wood JC, Murphy CD, Brenner CM, Symes DR close, 2020, Application of compact laser-driven accelerator X-ray sources for industrial imaging, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, Vol:983, ISSN:0168-9002, Pages:1-7

Streeter M, Najmudin Z, Shalloo R, et al.Streeter M, Najmudin Z, Shalloo R, Gruse J-N close, 2020, Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimisation, Nature Communications, Vol:11, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-8

Assmann RW, Weikum MK, Akhter T, et al.Assmann RW, Weikum MK, Akhter T, Alesini D, Alexandrova AS, Anania MP, Andreev NE, Andriyash I, Artioli M, Aschikhin A, Audet T, Bacci A, Barna IF, Bartocci S, Bayramian A, Beaton A, Beck A, Bellaveglia M, Beluze A, Bernhard A, Biagioni A, Bielawski S, Bisesto FG, Bonatto A, Boulton L, Brandi F, Brinkmann R, Briquez F, Brottier F, Bründermann E, Büscher M, Buonomo B, Bussmann MH, Bussolino G, Campana P, Cantarella S, Cassou K, Chancé A, Chen M, Chiadroni E, Cianchi A, Cioeta F, Clarke JA, Cole JM, Costa G, Couprie ME, Cowley J, Croia M, Cros B, Crump PA, D’Arcy R, Dattoli G, Del Dotto A, Delerue N, Del Franco M, Delinikolas P, De Nicola S, Dias JM, Di Giovenale D, Diomede M, Di Pasquale E, Di Pirro G, Di Raddo G, Dorda U, Erlandson AC, Ertel K, Esposito A, Falcoz F, Falone A, Fedele R, Ferran Pousa A, Ferrario M, Filippi F, Fils J, Fiore G, Fiorito R, Fonseca RA, Franzini G, Galimberti M, Gallo A, Galvin TC, Ghaith A, Ghigo A, Giove D, Giribono A, Gizzi LA, Grüner FJ, Habib AF, Haefner C, Heinemann T, Helm A, Hidding B, Holzer BJ, Hooker SM, Hosokai T, Hübner M, Ibison M, Incremona S, Irman A, Iungo F close, 2020, EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report, European Physical Journal: Special Topics, Vol:229, ISSN:1951-6355, Pages:3675-4284

Baggott R, Rose S, Mangles S, 2020, Calculating opacity in hot, dense matter using second-order electron-photon and two-photon transitions to approximate line broadening, Physical Review Letters, Vol:125, ISSN:0031-9007, Pages:145002 – 1-145002 – 5

Shalloo RJ, Mangles SPD, 2020, Faster laser pulses boost plasma accelerators, Nature Photonics, Vol:14, ISSN:1749-4885, Pages:470-471

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