The hard copy of the Annual Report 2014-2015 contains a short synopsis of each article.
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Foreword

Overview

Economic Impact

Outreach

High Intensity/Energy Science (synopsis of each article)

  1. XUV collisional absorption of warm dense aluminium
  2. Phase transitions in shock-compressed bismuth identified using single photon energy dispersive x-ray diffraction (only synopsis available)
  3. X-ray scattering at breakout from warm dense iron
  4. Neutron production from ultrathin foils by radiation pressure driven ions
  5. Modelling the effect of laser focal spot size on sheath accelerated protons in intense laser-foil interactions
  6. Proton activation history on the Vulcan high-intensity petawatt laser facility
  7. Tunable mega-ampere electron current propagation in solids by dynamic control of lattice melt
  8. Characterization of laser-driven proton beams from near-critical density targets using copper activation
  9. Evidence of locally enhanced target heating due to instabilities of counter-streaming fast electron beams
  10. Laser pulse propagation and enhanced energy coupling to fast electrons in dense plasma gradients
  11. Proton acceleration enhanced by a plasma jet in expanding foils undergoing relativistic transparency
  12. Influence of low-temperature resistivity on fast electron transport in solids: scaling to fast ignition electron beam parameters
  13. A Freon™-filled bubble chamber for the spectra measurement of ultrashort gamma ray bursts
  14. Ultrafast imaging of laser-driven shocks using betatron x-rays from a laser wakefield accelerator
  15. A laser-driven pulsed x-ray backscatter technique for enhanced penetrative imaging
  16. Interactions of relativistic electron-positron bunches with ambient plasmas in a regime relevant to the study of astrophysical jets
  17. High order harmonics from relativistic electron spikes
  18. Ultrahigh brilliance multi-MeV gamma-ray beams from nonlinear relativistic Thomson scattering
  19. Plasma-optics pushes the limit of laser-driven ion acceleration

Dynamics and Spectroscopy (synopsis of each article)

  1. Dynamics of chemical and photochemical reactions in solution
  2. Femtoseconds to seconds transient IR study of BLUF domain function utilizing unnatural amino acid substitution
  3. Resolution of the complete proton relay cycle in the green fluorescent protein with femtosecond to microsecond transient infra-red
  4. Time-resolved studies of guanine photo-oxidation by a DNA-bound Ru(II) complex in solution and crystal states
  5. Observing the photochemistry of [FeFe]-hydrogenase sub-site analogues from femtosecond to milliseconds (only synopsis available)
  6. UV laser spectroscopy of mass-selected ionic liquid building blocks in the gas-phase
  7. Peroxy radical photolysis in the near UV
  8. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of size-controlled colloidal nanocrystals for hydrogen generation with an inverse conical taper (only synopsis available)
  9. Recent developments towards time-resolved electron diffraction at York
  10. Ultrafast non-radiative decay of neutral amino acids: phenylalanine and tryptophan
  11. Circular dichroism in the ion yields of amino acids
  12. Developing a next generation ultrafast electron microscope
  13. Time-resolved microscopy with femtosecond few-electron pulses
  14. Ultrafast electron flux calibration for nanoscale dynamic imaging
  15. Investigating the ultrafast recovery of the charge density wave phase in 1T-TiSe2 (only synopsis available)
  16. Unveiling the role of the Mott-like electronic excitations in high-temperature superconductors by time-resolved photoemission
  17. Ultrafast free carrier dynamics in single layer MoS2

Life and Science Imaging (synopsis of each article)

  1. Fast confocal fluorescence lifetime imaging
  2. Multiplexed label-free detection of single proteins
  3. FRET-FLIM as an approach to validate proteomics datasets

Theory and Computation (synopsis of each article)

  1. Rate coefficients in a degenerate plasma produced by short wavelength lasers
  2. Shrinking the angular distribution of fast electrons via wires with an inverse conical taper
  3. The effect of superluminal phase velocity on electron acceleration in a powerful electromagnetic wave
  4. Anisotropic cooling of electron beams interacting with intense laser pulses
  5. Weak collisionless shocks in laser plasmas
  6. Single shot quantitative and spatially resolved plasma wakefield diagnostics
  7. Measuring radiation reaction in laser-electron beam collisions
  8. Exploiting the self-similar nature of Raman and Brillouin scattering
  9. Simulations of nanosecond laser self-focusing and channelling in under-dense magnetised plasmas
  10. The effect of lattice structure on fast electron transport in dual layer solid targets

Development (synopsis of each article)

  1. Laser beam collimation effects on large CPA compressors
  2. Laser shock peening of Si3N4 ceramics: experimental set-up and general effects
  3. Alteration of fracture toughness (KIc) of Si3N4 advanced ceramics by laser shock peening
  4. Progress on positioning of solid targets for Gemini
  5. Increased radiation shielding in Gemini Target Area 3
  6. Optimisation of the f/2 Gemini focal spot using full beam adaptive optics
  7. An adaptive optic in the Astra laser (only synopsis available)
  8. A transmission grating pulse stretcher for contrast enhancement of Gemini
  9. Facility development update: The Kerr-gated Raman/ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence instrument
  10. Time-resolved multiple-probing experiments on Ultra
  11. Surface specific IR-Visible sum frequency generation on Ultra (only synopsis available)
  12. Performance of the rod amplifier chain for the 20 PW Component Test Lab
  13. Development of the laser diagnostics for Vulcan
  14. Development of GRENOUILLE analysis tools
  15. Image Plate scanner calibrations
  16. Characterization of x-ray lens for use in probing high energy density states of matter
  17. DARB: An automated system for diagnostic handling, analysis, review and backup of laser plasma experimental data
  18. Validity of the analysis of radiochromic film using MATLAB Code
  19. Comparison of Cameras: Dynamic Ranges and Sensitivities of optical CCDs.
  20. Camera operational characterisation: Stingray F-033 and Imaging Source USB DFK 23U274
  21. Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for high power laser target applications
  22. Delivery of targets to the 2015 Orion academic access campaign
  23. Recent developments in the manufacture of cryogenic deuterium target
  24. The problem with silicon
  25. A dedicated target fabrication laboratory for low density materials, polymers and novel materials

Operations

Publications

Panels

Acknowledgements

Contact: Trines, Raoul (STFC,RAL,CLF)