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

Baggott RA, Rose S, Mangles SPD, 2021, Temperature equilibration due to charge state fluctuations in dense plasmas, Physical Review Letters, 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

Albert F, Couprie ME, Debus A, et al.Albert F, Couprie ME, Debus A, Downer MC, Faure J, Flacco A, Gizzi LA, Grismayer T, Huebl A, Joshi C, Labat M, Leemans WP, Maier AR, Mangles SPD, Mason P, Mathieu F, Muggli P, Nishiuchi M, Osterhoff J, Rajeev PP, Schramm U, Schreiber J, Thomas AGR, Vay J-L, Vranic M, Zeil K close, 2021, 2020 roadmap on plasma accelerators, New Journal of Physics, Vol:23, ISSN:1367-2630, Pages:1-34

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, Bruendermann E, Buescher M, Buonomo B, Bussmann MH, Bussolino G, Campana P, Cantarella S, Cassou K, Chance A, Chen M, Chiadroni E, Cianchi A, Cioeta F, Clarke JA, Cole JM, Costa G, Couprie M-E, 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, Gruener FJ, Habib AF, Haefner C, Heinemann T, Helm A, Hidding B, Holzer BJ, Hooker SM, Hosokai T, Huebner M, Ibison M, Incremona S, Irman A, Iungo F, Jafarinia FJ, Jakobsson O, Jaroszynski DA, Jaster-Merz S, Joshi C, Kaluza M, Kando M, Karger OS, Karsch S, Khazanov E, Khikhlukha D, Kirchen M, Kirwan G, Kitegi C, Knetsch A, Kocon D, Koester P, Kononenko OS, Korn G, Kostyukov I, Kruchinin KO, Labate L, Le Blanc C, Lechner C, Lee P, Leemans W, Lehrach A, Li X, Li Y, Libov V, Lifschitz A, Lindstrom CA, Litvinenko V, Lu W, Lundh O, Maier AR, Malka V, Manahan GG, Mangles SPD, Marcelli A, Marchetti B, Marcouille O, Marocchino A, Marteau F, Martinez de la Ossa A, Martins JL, Mason PD, Massimo F, Mathieu F, Maynard G, Mazzotta Z, Mironov S, Molodozhentsev AY, Morante S, Mosnier A, Mostacci A, Mueller A-S, Murphy CD, Najmudin Z, Nghiem PAP, Nguyen F, Niknejadi P, Nutter A, Osterhoff J, Oumbarek Espinos D, Paillard J-L, Papadopoulos DN, Patrizi B, Pattathil R, Pellegrino L, Petralia A, Petrillo V, Piersanti L, Pocsai MA close, 2021, Erratum to: EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report, European Physical Journal: Special Topics, Vol:229, ISSN:1951-6355, Pages:11-31

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

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