Christopher Paul Ridgers

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• 2023

  Laser Wakefield Accelerator modelling with Variational Neural Networks

  Streeter, M. J. V., Colgan, C., Cobo, C. C., Arran, C., Los, E. E., Watt, R., Bourgeois, N., Calvin, L., Carderelli, J., Cavanagh, N., Dann, S. J. D., Fitzgarrald, R., Gerstmayr, E., Joglekar, A. S., Kettle, B., Mckenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Najmudin, Z., Parsons, P., Qian, Q., & 6 othersRajeev, P. P., Ridgers, C. P., Symes, D. R., Thomas, A. G. R., Sarri, G. & Mangles, S. P. D., 6 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering.

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• 2022

  Gamma-ray flash in the interaction of a tightly focused single-cycle ultra-intense laser pulse with a solid target

  Hadjisolomou, P., Jeong, T. M., Valenta, P., Kolenaty, D., Versaci, R., Olšovcová, V., Ridgers, C. P. & Bulanov, S. V., 19 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Plasma Physics. 88, 1, 905880104.

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• Photon emission enhancement studies from the interaction of ultraintense laser pulses with shaped targets

  Chintalwad, S., Krishnamurthy, S., Ramakrishna, B. & Ridgers, C. P., 22 Feb 2022, In: Physical Review E. 105, 2, 7 p., 025205.

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• 2021

  Effect of laser temporal intensity skew on enhancing pair production in laser - Electron-beam collisions

  Bradley, L. E., Streeter, M. J. V., Murphy, C. D., Arran, C., Blackburn, T. G., Galletti, M., Mangles, S. P. D. & Ridgers, C. P., 9 Sep 2021, In: New Journal of Physics. 23, 9, 095004.

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• Formation and evolution of post-solitons following a high intensity laser-plasma interaction with a low-density foam target

  Blackman, D., Adak, A., Kumar Singh, P., Lad, A. D., Chatterjee, G., Ridgers, C. P., Del Sorbo, D., Trines, R. M. G. M., Robinson, A. P. L., Nazarov, W., Kumar, G. R. & Pasley, J. R., 18 May 2021, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 63, 7, 11 p., 074001.

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• Highly efficient conversion of laser energy to hard x-rays in high-intensity laser–solid simulations

  Morris, S., Robinson, A. & Ridgers, C. P., 19 Oct 2021, In: Physics of Plasmas. 28, 10, p. 1-12 12 p.

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• Investigation of the performance of mid-Z hohlraum wall liners for producing X-ray drive

  Owen, J., Pasley, J. R. & Ridgers, C. P., 8 Jan 2021, In: Physics of Plasmas. 28, 1, 7 p., 012703.

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• Measuring magnetic fields in laser-driven coils with dual-axis proton deflectometry

  Bradford, P., Dearling, A., Ehret, M., Antonelli, L., Booth, N., Carroll, D. C., Clarke, R. J., Glize, K., Heathcote, R., Khan, M., Moody, J. D., Pikuz, S., Pollock, B. B., Read, M. P., Ryazantsev, S., Spindloe, C., Ridgers, C. P., Santos, J. J., Tikhonchuk, V. T. & Woolsey, N. C., Aug 2021, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 63, 8, 13 p., 084008.

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• Observations of pressure anisotropy effects within semi-collisional magnetized plasma bubbles

  Tubman, E. R., Joglekar, A. S., Bott, A. F. A., Borghesi, M., Coleman, B., Cooper, G., Danson, C. N., Durey, P., Foster, J. M., Graham, P., Gregori, G., Gumbrell, E. T., Hill, M. P., Hodge, T., Kar, S., Kingham, R. J., Read, M., Ridgers, C. P., Skidmore, J., Spindloe, C., & 5 othersThomas, A. G. R., Treadwell, P., Wilson, S., Willingale, L. & Woolsey, N. C., 12 Jan 2021, In: Nature Communications. 12, 1, 9 p., 334.

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• Polarized QED cascades

  Seipt, D., Ridgers, C. P., Del Sorbo, D. & Thomas, A. G. R., 18 May 2021, In: New Journal of Physics. 23, 5, 15 p., 053025.

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• Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy: an introduction to the second edition

  Norreys, P. A., Ridgers, C., Lancaster, K., Koepke, M. & Tynan, G., 25 Jan 2021, In: Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 379, 2189, 20200028.

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• Proton radiography in background magnetic fields

  Arran, C., Ridgers, C. P. & Woolsey, N. C., 1 Jul 2021, In: Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 6, 4, 7 p., 046904.

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• The inadequacy of a magnetohydrodynamic approach to the Biermann battery

  Ridgers, C. P., Arran, C., Bissell, J. J. & Kingham, R. J., 25 Jan 2021, In: Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 379, 2189, 13 p., 20200017.

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• Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulations of pre-magnetized ablating planar targets

  Hill, D. W., Ridgers, C. P., Kingham, R. J. & Walsh, C. A., 21 Sep 2021, In: Physics of Plasmas. 28, 9, 11 p., 092708.

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• 2020

  Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimisation

  Shalloo, R. J., Dann, S. J. D., Gruse, J. N., Underwood, C. I. D., Antoine, A. F., Arran, C., Backhouse, M., Baird, C. D., Balcazar, M. D., Bourgeois, N., Cardarelli, J. A., Hatfield, P., Kang, J., Krushelnick, K., Mangles, S. P. D., Murphy, C. D., Lu, N., Osterhoff, J., Põder, K., Rajeev, P. P., & 9 othersRidgers, C. P., Rozario, S., Selwood, M. P., Shahani, A. J., Symes, D. R., Thomas, A. G. R., Thornton, C., Najmudin, Z. & Streeter, M. J. V., 11 Dec 2020, In: Nature Communications. 11, 1, 8 p., 6355.

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• Controlling X-Ray Flux in Hohlraums Using Burn-through Barriers

  Trickey, W., Owen, J., Ridgers, C. P. & Pasley, J. R., 1 Oct 2020, In: Physics of Plasmas. 27, 10, 7 p., 103301.

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• Extended-magnetohydrodynamics in under-dense plasmas

  Walsh, C. A., Chittenden, J. P., Hill, D. W. & Ridgers, C., 1 Feb 2020, In: Physics of Plasmas. 27, 2, 11 p., 022103.

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• Incorporating nonlocal parallel thermal transport in 1D ITER SOL modelling

  Wigram, M., Ridgers, C. P., Dudson, B. D., Brodrick, J. & Omotani, J. T., 2 Jun 2020, In: Nuclear Fusion. 60, 7, 14 p., 076008.

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• Investigation of QED Effects with Varying Z in Thin Foil Targets

  Chintalwad, S., Krishnamurthy, S., Ramakrishna, B., Morris, S. & Ridgers, C., 7 Oct 2020, In: IEEE transactions on plasma science. 49, 2, p. 573-577 5 p., 9212612.

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• Proton deflectometry of a capacitor coil target along two axes

  Bradford, P., Read, M. P., Ehret, M., Antonelli, L., Khan, M., Booth, N., Glize, K., Carroll, D., Clarke, R. J., Heathcote, R., Ryazantsev, S., Pikuz, S., Spindloe, C., Moody, J. D., Pollock, B. B., Tikhonchuk, V. T., Ridgers, C. P., Santos, J. J. & Woolsey, N. C., 2 Apr 2020, In: High Power Laser Science and Engineering. 8, 9 p., e11.

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• 2019

  Author Correction: Relativistic Doppler-boosted γ-rays in High Fields

  Capdessus, R., King, M., Sorbo, D. D., Duff, M., Ridgers, C. P. & McKenna, P., 9 Oct 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 1, 1 p., 14777.

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• Field reconstruction from proton radiography of intense laser driven magnetic reconnection

  Palmer, C. A. J., Campbell, P. T., Ma, Y., Antonelli, L., Bott, A. F. A., Gregori, G., Halliday, J., Katzir, Y., Kordell, P., Krushelnick, K., Lebedev, S. V., Montgomery, E., Notley, M., Carroll, D. C., Ridgers, C. P., Schekochihin, A. A., Streeter, M. J. V., Thomas, A. G. R., Tubman, E. R., Woolsey, N., & 1 othersWillingale, L., Aug 2019, In: Physics of Plasmas. 26, 8, 083109.

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• Identifying the electron–positron cascade regimes in high-intensity laser-matter interactions

  Slade-Lowther, C., Del Sorbo, D. & Ridgers, C. P., 20 Jan 2019, In: New Journal of Physics. 21, 013028.

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• Multi-stage scheme for nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair-production utilising ultra-intense laser-solid interactions

  Duff, M. J., Capdessus, R., Ridgers, C. P. & McKenna, P., 23 Jul 2019, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61, 9, 14 p., 094001.

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• Optimal parameters for radiation reaction experiments

  Arran, C. D., Cole, J. M., Gerstmayr, E., Blackburn, T. G., Mangles, S. P. D. & Ridgers, C. P., 11 Jun 2019, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 61, 7, 11 p., 074009.

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• Performance assessment of long-legged tightly-baffled divertor geometries in the ARC reactor concept

  Wigram, M. R. K., Labombard, B., Umansky, M., Kuang, A. Q., Golfinopoulos, T., Terry, J. L., Brunner, D., Rensink, M. E., Ridgers, C. P. & Whyte, D., 12 Sep 2019, In: Nuclear Fusion. 59, p. 1-20 20 p., 106052.

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• Reaching supercritical field strengths with intense lasers

  Blackburn, T. G., Ilderton, A., Marklund, M. & Ridgers, C. P., 29 May 2019, In: New Journal of Physics. 21, 053040.

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• Realising single-shot measurements of quantum radiation reaction in high-intensity lasers

  Baird, C. D., Murphy, C. D., Blackburn, T. G., Ilderton, A., Mangles, S. P. D., Marklund, M. & Ridgers, C. P., 22 May 2019, In: New Journal of Physics. 21, 9 p., 053030.

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• Ultrafast polarization of an electron beam in an intense bichromatic laser field

  Seipt, D., Del Sorbo, D., Ridgers, C. P. & Thomas, A. G. R., 4 Dec 2019, In: Physical Review A. 100, 6, 7 p., 061402.

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• 2018

  A spectrometer for ultrashort gamma-ray pulses with photon energies greater than 10 MeV

  Behm, K. T., Cole, J. M., Joglekar, A. S., Gerstmayr, E., Wood, J. C., Baird, C. D., Blackburn, T. G., Duff, M., Harvey, C., Ilderton, A., Kuschel, S., Mangles, S. P. D., Marklund, M., McKenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Najmudin, Z., Poder, K., Ridgers, C. P., Sarri, G., Samarin, G. M., & 5 othersSymes, D., Warwick, J., Zepf, M., Krushelnick, K. & Thomas, A. G. R., 6 Nov 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 89, 11, 9 p., 113303.

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• Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron-positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions

  Sorbo, D. D., Blackman, D. R., Capdessus, R., Small, K., Slade-Lowther, C., Duff, M. J., Robinson, A. P. L., McKenna, P., Sheng, Z. -M., Pasley, J., Ridgers, C. P. & Luo, W., 26 Mar 2018, In: New Journal of Physics. 20, 3, 9 p., 033014.

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• Electron spin polarization in realistic trajectories around the magnetic node of two counter-propagating, circularly polarized, ultra-intense lasers

  Del Sorbo, D., Seipt, D., Thomas, A. G. R. & Ridgers, C. P., 13 Apr 2018, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60, 6, p. 1-9 9 p., 064003.

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• Experimental Evidence of Radiation Reaction in the Collision of a High-Intensity Laser Pulse with a Laser-Wakefield Accelerated Electron Beam

  Cole, J. M., Behm, K. T., Gerstmayr, E., Blackburn, T. G., Wood, J. C., Baird, C. D., Duff, M. J., Harvey, C., Ilderton, A., Joglekar, A. S., Krushelnick, K., Kuschel, S., Marklund, M., McKenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Poder, K., Ridgers, C. P., Samarin, G. M., Sarri, G., Symes, D. R., & 5 othersThomas, A. G. R., Warwick, J., Zepf, M., Najmudin, Z. & Mangles, S. P. D., 7 Feb 2018, In: Physical Review X. 8, 1, 11 p., 011020.

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• Experimental Signatures of the Quantum Nature of Radiation Reaction in the Field of an Ultraintense Laser

  Poder, K., Tamburini, M., Sarri, G., Di Piazza, A., Kuschel, S., Baird, C. D., Behm, K., Bohlen, S., Cole, J. M., Corvan, D. J., Duff, M., Gerstmayr, E., Keitel, C. H., Krushelnick, K., Mangles, S. P. D., McKenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Najmudin, Z., Ridgers, C. P., Samarin, G. M., & 4 othersSymes, D. R., Thomas, A. G. R., Warwick, J. & Zepf, M., 5 Jul 2018, In: Physical Review X. 8, 3, 11 p., 031004.

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• Incorporating kinetic effects on Nernst advection in inertial fusion simulations

  Brodrick, J. P., Sherlock, M., Farmer, W. A., Joglekar, A. S., Barrois, R., Wengraf, J., Bissell, J. J., Kingham, R. J., Sorbo, D. D., Read, M. P. & Ridgers, C. P., 26 Jun 2018, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60, 8, 16 p., 084009.

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• Modelling the effects of the radiation reaction force on the interaction of thin foils with ultra-intense laser fields

  Duff, M. J., Capdessus, R., Sorbo, D. D., Ridgers, C. P., King, M. & McKenna, P., 20 Apr 2018, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 60, 6, p. 1-13 13 p., 064006.

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• QED cascade saturation in extreme high fields

  Luo, W., Liu, W-Y., Yuan, T., Chen, M., Yu, J-Y., Li, F-Y., Del Sorbo, D., Ridgers, C. P. & Sheng, Z. M., 30 May 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8, 8400, p. 1-8 8 p.

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• Relativistic Doppler-boosted γ-rays in High Fields

  Capdessus, R., King, M., Del Sorbo, D., Duff, M. J., Ridgers, C. P. & McKenna, P., 14 Jun 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scientific Reports. 8, 1, 12 p., 9155.

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• Theory of radiative electron polarization in strong laser fields

  Seipt, D., Del Sorbo, D., Ridgers, C. P. & Thomas, A. G. R., 20 Aug 2018, In: Physical Review A. 98, 2, 19 p., 023417.

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• Time-resolved measurements of fast electron recirculation for relativistically intense femtosecond scale laser-plasma interactions

  Green, J., Booth, N., Dance, R. J., Gray, R. J., MacLellan, D. A., McKenna, P., Murphy, C. D., Ridgers, C. P., Robinson, A., Rusby, D. R. & Wilson, L. A., 14 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scientific Reports. p. 1-9 9 p.

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• 2017

  A comparison of non-local electron transport models for laser-plasmas relevant to inertial confinement fusion

  Sherlock, M., Brodrick, J. P. & Ridgers, C. P., 8 Aug 2017, In: Physics of Plasmas. p. 1-10 10 p.

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• Plasma scale length effects on protons generated in ultra-intense laser–plasmas

  Culfa, O., Tallents, G. J., Korkmaz, M. E., Rossall, A. K., Wagenaars, E., Ridgers, C. P., Murphy, C. D., Booth, N., Carroll, D. C., Wilson, L. A., Lancaster, K. L. & Woolsey, N. C., 1 Mar 2017, In: Laser and Particle Beams. 35, 1, p. 58-63 6 p.

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• Signatures of quantum effects on radiation reaction in laser-electron-beam collisions

  Ridgers, C. P., Blackburn, T. G., Del Sorbo, D., Bradley, L. E., Slade-Lowther, C., Baird, C. D., Mangles, S. P. D., McKenna, P., Marklund, M., Murphy, C. D. & Thomas, A. G. R., 1 Oct 2017, In: Journal of Plasma Physics. 83, 5, 715830502.

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• Spin polarization of electrons by ultraintense lasers

  Del Sorbo, D., Seipt, D., Blackburn, T. G., Thomas, A. G. R., Murphy, C. D., Kirk, J. G. & Ridgers, C. P., 11 Oct 2017, In: Physical Review A. 96, 4, 6 p., 043407.

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• Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications

  Brodrick, J. P., Kingham, R., Marinak, M., Patel, M. V., Chankin, A., Omotani, J. T., Umansky, M. V., Del Sorbo, D., Dudson, B. D., Parker, J. T., Kerbel, G. D., Sherlock, M. & Ridgers, C. P., 6 Sep 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Physics of Plasmas. 24, 092309, 14 p.

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• 2016

  Kinetic modeling of Nernst effect in magnetized hohlraums

  Joglekar, A. S., Ridgers, C. P., Kingham, R. J. & Thomas, A. G. R., 22 Apr 2016, In: Physical Review E. 93, 5 p., 043206.

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• Plasma scale-length effects on electron energy spectra in high-irradiance laser plasmas

  Culfa, O., Tallents, G. J., Rossall, A. K., Wagenaars, E., Ridgers, C. P., Murphy, C. D., Dance, R. J., Gray, R. J., McKenna, P., Brown, C. D. R., James, S. F., Hoarty, D. J., Booth, N., Robinson, A. P. L., Lancaster, K. L., Pikuz, S. A., Faenov, A. Y., Kampfer, T., Schulze, K. S., Uschmann, I., & 1 othersWoolsey, N. C., 6 Apr 2016, In: Physical Review E. 93, 4, 043201.

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• 2015

  Contemporary particle-in-cell approach to laser-plasma modelling

  Arber, T., Bennett, K., Brady, C., Lawrence-Douglas, A., Ramsay, M., Sircombe, N., Gillies, P., Evans, R., Schmitz, H., Bell, T. & Ridgers, C. P., 10 Sep 2015, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 57, 11, 26 p.

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• Control of wire heating with resistively guided fast electrons through an inverse conical taper

  Robinson, A. P. L., Schmitz, H., Green, J. S., Ridgers, C. P., Booth, N. & Pasley, J., 1 Apr 2015, In: Physics of Plasmas. 22, 4, p. 1-6 6 p., 043118.

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• Guiding of laser-generated fast electrons by exploiting the resistivity-gradients around a conical guide element

  Robinson, A., Schmitz, H., Green, J. & Ridgers, C. P., 29 Apr 2015, In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 57, 6, p. 1-7 7 p.

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