ProfessorZulfikarNajmudin

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics

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Location

736Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

Summary

Zulfikar Najmudin is a Professor of Physics and is currently Deputy Director of the John-Adams Institute.

The John-Adams Institute is a joint Institute for research and advancement of accelerator science with the University of Oxford and Royal Holloway College, London. Prof. Najmudin directs the division at Imperial College that specialises in plasma based particle acceleration.

He has been a Lecturer in the Plasma Physics group in the Blackett Laboratory since 2001, and a Professor of Physics since 2011.

His research interests include interaction of high intensity laser with matter, laser-driven fusion and next generation particle accelerators.

He has been responsible for several major advances in the field of laser-plasma particle acceleration, including the first acceleration of electrons to >100 MeV, the first demonstration of narrow energy spread electron beams from laser wakefield accelerators, the first demonstration of (narrow-energy spread) shock acceleration of proton beams, and the brightest measurements yet of x-ray radiation from a laser wakefield accelerator.

Publications

Journals

Streeter MJV, Ma Y, Kettle B, et al.Streeter MJV, Ma Y, Kettle B, Dann SJD, Gerstmayr E, Albert F, Bourgeois N, Cipiccia S, Cole JM, Gonzalez IG, Hussein AE, Jaroszynski DA, Falk K, Krushelnick K, Lemos N, Lopes NC, Lumsdon C, Lundh O, Mangles SPD, Najmudin Z, Rajeev PP, Sandberg R, Shahzad M, Smid M, Spesyvtsev R, Symes DR, Vieux G, Thomas AGR close, 2022, Characterization of laser wakefield acceleration efficiency with octave spanning near-IR spectrum measurements, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol:25

Dickson LT, Underwood CID, Filippi F, et al.Dickson LT, Underwood CID, Filippi F, Shalloo RJ, Svensson JB, Guenot D, Svendsen K, Moulanier I, Dufrenoy SD, Murphy CD, Lopes NC, Rajeev PP, Najmudin Z, Cantono G, Persson A, Lundh O, Maynard G, Streeter MJ, Cros B close, 2022, Mechanisms to control laser-plasma coupling in laser wakefield electron acceleration, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, Vol:25, ISSN:2469-9888, Pages:1-12

Alejo A, Ahmed H, Krygier AG, et al.Alejo A, Ahmed H, Krygier AG, Clarke R, Freeman RR, Fuchs J, Green A, Green JS, Jung D, Kleinschmidt A, Morrison JT, Najmudin Z, Nakamura H, Norreys P, Notley M, Oliver M, Roth M, Vassura L, Zepf M, Borghesi M, Kar S close, 2022, Stabilized Radiation Pressure Acceleration and Neutron Generation in Ultrathin Deuterated Foils, Physical Review Letters, Vol:129, ISSN:0031-9007

Martin P, Ahmed H, Doria D, et al.Martin P, Ahmed H, Doria D, Alejo A, Clarke R, Ferguson S, Fernandez-Tobias J, Freeman RR, Fuchs J, Green A, Green JS, Gwynne D, Hanton F, Jarrett J, Jung D, Kakolee KF, Krygier AG, Lewis CLS, McIlvenny A, McKenna P, Morrison JT, Najmudin Z, Naughton K, Nersisyan G, Norreys P, Notley M, Roth M, Ruiz JA, Scullion C, Zepf M, Zhai S, Borghesi M, Kar S close, 2022, Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to laser driven protons up to 40 MeV, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol:93, ISSN:0034-6748

Maitrallain A, Brunetti E, Streeter MJ, et al.Maitrallain A, Brunetti E, Streeter MJ, Kettle B, Spesyvtsev R, Vieux G, Shahzad M, Ersfeld B, Yoffe SR, Kornaszewski A, Finlay O, Ma Y, Albert F, Bourgeois N, Dann SJD, Lemos N, Cipiccia S, Cole JM, Gonzalez IG, Willingale L, Higginbotham A, Hussein AE, Smid M, Falk K, Krushelnick K, Lopes NC, Gerstmayr E, Lumsdon C, Lundh O, Mangles SPD, Najmudin Z, Rajeev PP, Symes DR, Thomas AGR, Jaroszynski DA close, 2022, Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator, New Journal of Physics, Vol:24, ISSN:1367-2630

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