Publications involving Fusion CDT students past and present:
2022 Journal Publications
Date of publication: October 2022
CDT student name: James Clark
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: First divertor Thomson scattering measurements on MAST-U
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/5.0101635
Date of publication: October 2022
CDT student name: Robert Davies
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled fusion
Title of paper: Kinetic Ballooning modes as a constraint on Plasma trigangularity in commercial spherical tokamaks
Link:Kinetic Ballooning modes as a constraint on Plasma trigangularity in commercial spherical tokamaks
Date of publication: July 2022
CDT student name: Harry Dudding
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: A new quasilinear saturation rule for tokamak turbulence with application to the isotope scaling of transport
Link:A new quasilinear saturation rule for tokamak turbulence with application to the isotope scaling of transport
Date of publication: June 2022
CDT student name: Charles Gurnham
Journal: EEEE tranactions on applied superconductivity
Title of paper: Verification of a quasi-linear model for gyrokinetic turbulent transport
Link:Verification of a quasi-linear model for gyrokinetic turbulent transport
Date of publication: November 2022
CDT student name: Andrew Jackson
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Installation of a solid state neutral particle analyzer array on mega ampere spherical tokamak upgrade
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0101953
Date of publication: August 2022
CDT student name: Matthew Khan
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Role of hot electrons in shock ignition constrained by experiment at the National Ignition Facility
Link: Role of hot electrons in shock ignition constrained by experiment at the National Ignition Facility
2021 Journal Publications
Date of publication: July 2021
CDT student name: Sam Ward
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Verification and validation of the high-performance Lorentz-Orbit Code for Use in Stellarators and Tokamaks (LOCUST)
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ac108c
Date of publication: June 2021
CDT student name: Joe Allcock
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0043533
Date of publication: June 2021
CDT student name: Philip Bradford & Matthew Khan
Journal: Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Measuring magnetic fields in laser-driven coils with dual-axis proton deflectometry
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ac0bca
Date of publication: May 2021
CDT student name: David Blackman
Journal: Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Formation and evolution of post-solitons following a high intensity laser-plasma interaction with a low-density foam target
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abf85c/meta
Date of publication: May 2021
CDT student name: David West & Will Trickey & Chris Underwood
Journal: Physical Review Research
Title of paper: Femtosecond, two-dimensional spatial Doppler mapping of ultraintense laser-solid target interaction
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Date of publication: April 2021
CDT student name: James Clark
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Low temperature Thomson scattering on MAST-U
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0043813:
Date of publication: April 2021
CDT student name: Leo Doehl
Journal: Physical Review E
Title of paper: Ion acceleration at two collisionless shocks in a multicomponent plasma
Link: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.043201
Date of publication: March 2021
CDT student name: Max Rigby
Journal: Journal of Alloys and Compounds
Title of paper: Novel reduced-activation TiVCrFe based high entropy alloys
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925838820337634
Date of publication: March 2021
CDT student name: Leo Doehl & Phil Durey & Damon Farley
Journal: High Energy Density Physics
Title of paper: Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1574181821000033
Date of publication: Feb 2021
CDT student name: Bob Davies
Journal: Journal of Plasma Physics
Title of paper: Turbulent impurity transport simulations in Wendelstein 7-X plasmas
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-plasma-physics/article/abs/turbulent-impurity-transport-simulations-in-wendelstein-7x-plasmas/EF07D436EEEB3334FAE7C0B2E9456FEC
Date of publication: Jan 2021
CDT student name: Max Rigby & James Bird
Journal: RSC Advances
Title of paper: Synthesis of new M-layer solid-solution 312 MAX phases (Ta1−xTix)3AlC2 (x = 0.4, 0.62, 0.75, 0.91 or 0.95), and their corresponding MXenes
Link: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/RA/D0RA09761F#!divAbstract
Date of publication: Jan 2021
CDT student name: Paul Barron
Journal: Entropy
Title of paper: High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Nuclear Applications
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy
Date of publication: Jan 2021
CDT student name: Ellie Tubman & Phil Durey & Sarah Wilson
Journal: Nature
Title of paper: Observations of pressure anisotropy effects within semi-collisional magnetized plasma bubbles
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20387-7
Date of publication: Jan 2021
CDT student name: Joe Owen
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Investigation of the performance of mid-Z Hohlraum wall liners for producing x-ray drive
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0029689
2020 Journal Publications
Date of Publication: December 2020
CDT Student Name: Chris Underwood and Matthew Selwood
Journal: Nature Communications
Title of Paper: Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimization
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20245-6
Date of Publication: December 2020
CDT Student Name: Andrew Jackson
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of Paper: Diagnosing fast ion redistribution due to sawtooth instabilities using fast ion deuterium-α spectroscopy in the mega amp spherical tokamak
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/abb619
Date of publication: Dec 2020
CDT student name: Matthew Dunn
Journal: Nuclear Materials and Energy
Title of paper: Thermographic investigation of the effect of plasma exposure on the surface of a MAST upgrade divertor tile in Magnum-PSI
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179120301010?via%3Dihub
Date of publication: Dec 2020
CDT student name: James Ellis
Journal: Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Title of paper: The spatial distribution of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet
Link: Click here for link to journal.
Date of Publication: October 2020
CDT Student Name: Chris Underwood and Matthew Selwood
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of Paper: Development of control mechanisms for a laser wakefield accelerator-driven bremsstrahlung x-ray source for advanced radiographic imaging
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/abbebe/meta
Date of publication: Oct 2020
CDT student name: William Trickey & Joe Owen
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Controlling x-ray flux in hohlraums using burnthrough barriers
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0014798?af=R&feed=most-recent
Date of publication: Sept 2020
CDT student name: James Ellis and Joseph Branson
Journal: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Title of paper: Influence of surface materials on the volume production of negative ions in a radio-frequency driven hydrogen plasma
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/abae93
Date of publication: Sept 2020
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Physical Review X
Title of paper: Towards Terawatt-Scale Spectrally Tunable Terahertz Pulses via Relativistic Laser-Foil Interactions
Link: https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031062
Date of publication: August 2020
CDT student name: Gregory Smith and James Ellis
Journal: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Title of paper: Enhancing surface production of negative ions using nitrogen doped diamond in a deuterium plasma
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/aba6b6
Date of publication: August 2020
CDT student name: Joe Allcock
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Doppler coherence imaging of scrape-off-layer impurity flows in the HL-2A tokamak
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0005609
Date of Publication: July 2020
CDT Student Name: Chris Underwood
Journal: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A
Title of Paper: Application of compact laser-driven accelerator X-ray sources for industrial imaging
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016890022030766X
Date of publication: June 2020
CDT student name: Michael Wigram
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Incorporating nonlocal parallel thermal transport in 1D ITER SOL modelling
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab868b
Date of publication: June 2020
CDT student name: Emma Hume
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Hydrodynamic motion of guiding elements within a magnetic switchyard in fast ignition conditions
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0002156
Date of publication: June 2020
CDT student name: Charles Gurnham
Journal: Journal of Physics Conference Series
Title of paper: Angular Jc measurements at 77 K in-field, on an ISD REBCO coated conductor using a straightforward mechanical scribing technique to reduce tape width
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1559/1/012036
Date of publication: June 2020
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Electromagnetic pulse emission from target holders during short-pulse laser interactions
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/5.0006666
Date of publication: June 2020
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: High Power Laser Science & Engineering
Title of paper: Laser produced electromagnetic pulses: generation, detection and mitigation
Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2020.13
Date of publication: May 2020
CDT student name: Siobhan Smith
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Simulations of edge localised mode instabilities in MAST-U Super-X tokamak plasmas
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab826a
Date of publication: May 2020
CDT student name: Bhavin Patel
Journal: Fusion Engineering & Design
Title of paper: “PROCESS”: Systems studies of spherical tokamaks
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920379620300788
Date of publication: May 2020
CDT student name: Omkar Myatra
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Simulations of edge localised mode instabilities in MAST-U Super-X tokamak plasmas
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab826a
Date of Publication: May 2020
CDT Student Name: Matthew Selwood and Chris Underwood
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of Paper: Coded apertures with scatter and partial attenuation for high-energy high-resolution imaging
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab8ca4/meta
Date of Publication: May 2020
CDT Student Name: Chris Underwood
Journal: Plasma Laser and Particle Beams
Title of Paper: Characterization of flowing liquid films as a regenerating plasma mirror for high repetition rate laser contrast enhancement
Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034620000129
Date of publication: April 2020
CDT student name: Philip Bradford & Matthew Khan
Journal: High Power Laser Science & Engineering
Title of paper: Proton deflectometry of a capacitor coil target along two axes
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/high-power-laser-science-and-engineering/article/proton-deflectometry-of-a-capacitor-coil-target-along-two-axes/37558AEE342F11FA6EAA618A74108C9E
Date of publication: April 2020
CDT student name: Leo Doehl & Damon Farley & Phil Durey
Journal: Physical Review E
Title of paper: Effect of plastic coating on the density of plasma formed in Si foil targets irradiated by ultra-high-contrast relativistic laser pulses
Link: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.043208
Date of publication: April 2020
CDT student name: Leo Doehl
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Enhanced brightness of a laser-driven x-ray and particle source by microstructured surfaces of silicon targets
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.5125775
Date of publication: March 2020
CDT student name: Sarah Wilson, James Lolley & Eduardo Solis Meza
Journal: Proc. International Conference on X-Ray Lasers
Title of paper: The Ablation of Solid Targets Using a Capillary Discharge Laser
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Date of publication: March 2020
CDT student name: Carmen Makepeace
Journal: Physica Scripta
Title of paper: Fuel inventory and material migration of JET main chamber plasma facing components compared over three operational periods
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/ab5350
Date of publication: Feb 2020
CDT student name: Paul Barron
Journal: Scripta Materialia
Title of paper: Towards V-based high-entropy alloys for nuclear fusion applications
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646219305627?via%3Dihub
Date of publication: Feb 2020
CDT student name: Simon Orchard & Omkar Myatra
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Development and simulation of multi-diagnostic Bayesian analysis for 2D inference of divertor plasma characteristics
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab759b
2019 Journal Publications
Date of publication: Dec 2019
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Scientific Reports
Title of paper: Quantitative phase contrast imaging of a shock-wave with a laser-plasma based X-ray source
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55074-1
Date of publication: Dec 2019
CDT student name: Matthew Lloyd & Robert Abernethy
Journal: Scripta Materialia
Title of paper: Decoration of voids with rhenium and osmium transmutation products in neutron irradiated single crystal tungsten
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359646219304440
Date of publication: Dec 2019
CDT student name: Robert Abernethy
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Title of paper: Effects of neutron irradiation on the brittle to ductile transition in single crystal tungsten
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311519306890#!
Date of publication: Nov 2019
CDT student name: Alex Liptak
Journal: Journal of Physics Communications
Title of paper: Developments towards Bragg edge imaging on the IMAT beamline at the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source: BEAn software
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2399-6528/ab5575
Date of publication: Oct 2019
CDT student name: Michail Anastopoulos-Tzanis
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Non-axisymmetric equilibrium and stability using the ELITE stability code
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab40ef
Date of publication: Oct 2019
CDT student name: Matthew Lloyd & Robert Abernethy
Journal: The European Physical Journal B
Title of paper: Radiation-induced segregation in W-Re: from kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to atom probe tomography experiments
Link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjb/e2019-100244-y
Date of publication: Sept 2019
CDT student name: Simon Chislett-McDonald
Journal: Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Title of paper: The magnetic field, temperature, strain and angular dependence of the critical current density for Nb-Ti
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1559/1/012063
Date of publication: Sept 2019
CDT student name: Eduardo Solis Meza
Journal: Proc. SPIE conference series
Title of paper: Extreme ultraviolet laser ablation of solid targets
Link: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11111/2528736/Extreme-ultraviolet-laser-ablation-of-solid-targets/10.1117/12.2528736.short
Date of publication: Sept 2019
CDT student name: Michael Wigram
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Performance assessment of long-legged tightly-baffled divertor geometries in the ARC reactor concept
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab394f
Date of publication: Sept 2019
CDT student name: William Trickey
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Producing shock-ignition-like pressures by indirect drive
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab3007
Date of publication: August 2019
CDT student name: Charlie Vincent
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: The digital mirror Langmuir probe: Field programmable gate array implementation of real-time Langmuir probe biasing
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5109834
Date of publication: August 2019
CDT student name: Simon Chislett McDonald
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Title of paper: Could High H98-Factor Commercial Tokamak Power Plants Use Nb–Ti Toroidal Field Coils?
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8630091
Date of publication: July 2019
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Self-consistent pedestal prediction for JET-ILW in preparation of the DT campaign
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5096870
Date of publication: July 2019
CDT student name: Peter Ryan
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Comparison of Langmuir probe and laser Thomson scattering for electron property measurements in magnetron discharges
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5109621
Date of publication: July 2019
CDT student name: David Shaw
Journal: Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Modelling radio-frequency plasma cleaning of fusion optics
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab2cb2
Date of publication: June 2019
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Isotope identity experiments in JET-ILW with H and D L-mode plasmas.
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab1ccd
Date of publication: June 2019
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Role of the pedestal position on the pedestal performance in AUG, JET-ILW and TCV and implications for ITER
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab1eb9
Date of publication: June 2019
CDT student name: Joe Allcock and Joe Allen
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Overview of new MAST physics in anticipation of first results from MAST Upgrade
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab121c
Date of publication: May 2019
CDT student name: Joe Allen
Journal: Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: The role of particle, energy and momentum losses in 1D simulations of divertor detachment
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/ab1321
Date of publication: May 2019
CDT student name: Carmen Makepeace
Journal: Nuclear Materials & Energy
Title of paper: The effect of beryllium oxide on retention in JET ITER-like wall tiles
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179118301650
Date of publication: May 2019
CDT student name: Carmen Makepeace
Journal: Nuclear Materials & Energy
Title of paper: Deposition of impurity metals during campaigns with the JET ITER-like Wall
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235217911830190X
Date of publication: April 2019
CDT student name: Leo Doehl & Damon Farley
Journal: Laser and Particle Beams
Title of paper: Features of the generation of fast particles from microstructured targets irradiated by high intensity, picosecond laser pulses
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/laser-and-particle-beams/article/features-of-the-generation-of-fast-particles-from-microstructured-targets-irradiated-by-high-intensity-picosecond-laser-pulses/1AB30FDD35E9EE8B0D393EE8560C54DB
Date of publication: April 2019
CDT student name: Peter Ryan
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Comparison of Langmuir probe and laser Thomson scattering for plasma density and electron temperature measurements in HiPIMS plasma
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5094602
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Long-lived coupled peeling ballooning modes preceding ELMs on JET
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/ab0031
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Caroline Lumsdon
Journal: Scientific Reports
Title of paper: Laser-wakefield accelerators for high-resolution X-ray imaging of complex microstructures
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39845-4
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Journal Of Instrumentation
Title of paper: Propagation-based imaging phase-contrast enhanced imaging setup for single shot acquisition using laser-generated X-ray sources
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/14/03/C03005
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Europhysics Letters
Title of paper: X-ray phase-contrast imaging for laser-induced shock waves
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/125/35002
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Title of paper: Multimillijoule coherent terahertz bursts from picosecond laser-irradiated metal foils
Link: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/10/3994
Date of publication: March 2019
CDT student name: Joe Allen & Charlie Vincent
Journal: EPJ Web of Conferences
Title of paper: Design of the Synthetic Aperture Microwave Imager Upgrade for measurement of the edge current density on MAST-U
Link: https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/abs/2019/08/epjconf_ec2018_03004/epjconf_ec2018_03004.html
Date of publication: Jan 2019
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Bremsstrahlung emission profile from intense laser-solid interactions as a function of laser focal spot size
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aaf596
2018 Journal Publications
Date of publication: Dec 2018
CDT student name: Carmen Makepeace
Journal: Nuclear Materials and Energy
Title of paper: Identification of BeO and BeOxDy in melted zones of the JET Be limiter tiles: Raman study using comparison with laboratory samples
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235217911830139X
Date of publication: Dec 2018
CDT student name: Leo Doehl
Journal: High Power Laser Science & Engineering
Title of paper: Reflection of intense laser light from microstructured targets as a potential diagnostic of laser focus and plasma temperature
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Date of publication: Nov 2018
CDT student name: Sarah Wilson & Joe Branson
Journal: Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
Title of paper: Plasma temperature measurements using black-body radiation from spectral lines emitted by a capillary discharge
Link: https://www.
Date of publication: Oct 2018
CDT student name: Max Szolcek
Journal: Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science
Title of paper: Effect of thickness to diameter ratio on micro-orifice single-phase liquid flow at low Reynolds number
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0894177718304060?via%3Dihub
Date of publication: Sept 2018
CDT student name: Thomas Davis
Report for: Office for Nuclear Regulation (UK)
Title of paper: Review of the iron-based materials applicable for the fuel and core of future Sodium Fast Reactors (SFR)
Link: http://www.onr.org.uk/documents/2018/onr-rrr-088.pdf
Date of publication: July 2018
CDT student name: David Shaw
Journal: 45th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics
Title of paper: Low-temperature plasma removal of deposits from fusion first mirrors
Link: http://ocs.ciemat.es/
Date of publication: July 2018
CDT student name: Phil Bradford
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Cherenkov radiation-based optical fibre diagnostics of fast electrons generated in intense laser-plasma interactions
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5024872
Date of publication: July 2018
CDT student name: Patrick McCarthy
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Growth of nano-tendril bundles on tungsten with impurity-rich He plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/aacd1f
Date of publication: June 2018
CDT student name: Jonathan Brodrick
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Incorporating kinetic effects on Nernst advection in inertial fusion simulations
Link: http://iopscience.iop.
Date of publication: June 2018
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Inter-ELM evolution of the edge current density in JET-ILW type I ELMy H-mode plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aac7a9/meta
Date of publication: June 2018
CDT student name: Jack Greenwood
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Title of paper: Biaxial Strain Measurements of Jc on a (RE)BCO Coated Conductor
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8258894
Date of publication: May 2018
CDT student name: Philip Bradford
Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Title of paper: EMP control and characterization on high-power laser systems
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/high-power-laser-science-and-engineering/article/emp-control-and-characterization-on-highpower-laser-systems/0A8F5AE539B02B34FD720A1CDA3B75F5
Date of publication: May 2018
CDT student name: James Ellis
Journal: Applied Physics Express
Title of paper: Negative-hydrogen-ion production from a nanoporous 12CaO 7Al2O3 electride surface
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.7567/APEX.11.066201/meta
Date of publication: April 2018
CDT student name: Phil Durey, Leo Doehl & Damon Farley
Journal: Photonics Research
Title of paper: X-ray absorption spectroscopy study of energy transport in foil targets heated by petawatt laser pulses
Link: https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/abstract.cfm?uri=prj-6-4-234
Date of publication: March 2018
CDT student name: David Blackman
Journal: New Journal of Physics
Title of paper: Efficient ion acceleration and dense electron–positron plasma creation in ultra-high intensity laser-solid interactions
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aaae61
Date of publication: Feb 2018
CDT student name: Sarah Wilson
Journal: X-Ray Lasers 2016 – Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on X-Ray Lasers
Title of paper: The Creation of Radiation Dominated Plasmas Using Laboratory X-Ray Lasers
Link: https://link.springer.
Date of publication: Feb 2018
CDT student name: Alasdair Wynn
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Investigation into the formation of the scrape-off layer density shoulder in JET ITER-like wall L-mode and H-mode plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.
Date of publication: Jan 2018
CDT student name: Ben Woods
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Stochastic effects on phase-space holes and clumps in kinetic systems near marginal stability
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/aaa9fd
2017 Journal Publications
Date of publication: Dec 2017
CDT student name: Carmen Makepeace
Journal: Physica Scripta
Title of paper: Transient induced tungsten melting at the Joint European Torus (JET)
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1402-4896/aa8789
Date of publication: Dec 2017
CDT student name: David Blackman
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Probing ultrafast dynamics of solid-density plasma generated by high-contrast intense laser pulses
Link: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.5005176
Date of publication: Dec 2017
CDT student name: Joe Allen and Oliver Marshall
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Particle acceleration during merging-compression plasma start-up in the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aa98fa
Date of publication: Nov 2017
CDT student name: Leo Doehl
Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
Title of paper: Magneto-optic probe measurements in low density-supersonic jets
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/P12001
Date of publication: Nov 2017
CDT student name: Jack Lovell
Journal: Journal of Instrumentation
Title of paper: A compact, smart Langmuir Probe control module for MAST-Upgrade
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/12/11/C11008
Date of publication: Nov 2017
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath, Amelia Lunniss and Alasdair Wynn
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Pedestal evolution physics in low triangularity JET tokamak discharges with ITER-like wall
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/aa90bc
Date of publication: Nov 2017
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Isotope effects on L-H threshold and confinement in tokamak plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aa9901/meta
Date of publication: Nov 2017
CDT student name: Phil Durey, Leo Doehl & Damon Farley
Journal: Journal of Physics B Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics;
Title of paper: In-depth study of intra-Stark spectroscopy in the x-ray range in relativistic laser–plasma interactions
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6455/aa93c7
Date of publication: Sept 2017
CDT student name: Jack Haley
Journal: Acta Materialia
Title of paper: Dislocation loop evolution during in-situ ion irradiation of model FeCrAl alloys
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135964541730561X
Date of publication: Sept 2017
CDT student name: Jonathan Brodrick
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Testing nonlocal models of electron thermal conduction for magnetic and inertial confinement fusion applications
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5001079
Date of publication: August 2017
CDT student name: Tom Farley
Journal: Nuclear Materials and Energy
Title of paper: Identification of intermittent transport in the scrape-off layer of MAST through high speed imaging
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179116300667?via%3Dihub
Date of publication: August 2017
CDT student name: Hannah Willett
Journal: Nuclear Materials and Energy
Title of paper: Simulation of the interaction between plasma turbulence and neutrals in linear devices
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179116300497
Date of publication: August 2017
CDT student name: Jonathan Brodrick
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: A comparison of non-local electron transport models for laser-plasmas relevant to inertial confinement fusion
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4986095
Date of publication: August 2017
CDT student name: Dave Blackman
Journal: Scientific Reports
Title of paper: Micron-scale mapping of megagauss magnetic fields using optical polarimetry to probe hot electron transport in petawatt-class laser-solid interactions
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08619-1
Date of publication: June 2017
CDT student name: Hannah Willett
Journal: Physics Education
Title of paper: The implementation of binding blocks in the classroom
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aa76d5
Date of publication: June 2017
CDT student name: Dave Blackman
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Controlling femtosecond-laser-driven shock-waves in hot, dense plasma
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4990059
Date of publication: May 2017
CDT student name: David Blackman
Journal: SPIE
Title of paper: Ion acceleration with radiation pressure in quantum electrodynamic regimes
Link: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10241/1/Ion-acceleration-with-radiation-pressure-in-quantum-electrodynamic-regimes/10.1117/12.2271137.short?SSO=1
Date of publication: April 2017
CDT student name: Asad Hussain
Journal: Astronomy & Astrophysics
Title of paper: A relaxation model of coronal heating in multiple interacting flux ropes
Link: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2017/04/aa29589-16/aa29589-16.html
Date of publication: March 2017
CDT student name: Andrea Impagnatiello
Journal: Scripta Materialia
Title of paper: Monolayer-Thick TiO precipitation in V-4Cr-4Ti alloy induced by proton irradiation
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646216305978
Date of publication: March 2017
CDT student name: Sam Murphy-Sugrue
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Improved understanding of the ball-pen probe through particle-in-cell simulations
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/aa60d0/pdf
Date of publication: March 2017
CDT student name: Andrea Impagnatiello
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Title of paper: Ti-rich precipitate evolution in vanadium-based alloys during annealing above 400 °c
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002231151630808X
Date of publication: March 2017
CDT student name: Fred Thomas
Journal: Fusion Engineering and Design
Title of paper: Quantifying TBR uncertainty due to lead nuclear data in HCLL blanket modelling
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920379617303411
Date of publication: Feb 2017
CDT student name: Hannah Willett
Journal: Physics Education
Title of paper: Binding blocks: building the Universe one nucleus at a time
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aa550c
Date of publication: Feb 2017
CDT student name: Tom Farley
Journal: New Journal of Physics
Title of paper: Alternative solutions to caesium in negative-ion sources: a study of negative-ion surface production on diamond in H2/D2 plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aa5f1f/meta
Date of publication: January 2017
CDT student name: Dave Ryan
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Numerically derived parametrisation of optimal RMP coil phase as a guide to experiments on ASDEX Upgrade
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6587/59/2/024005/meta
Date of publication: January 2017
CDT student name: Alasdair Wynn
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Statistical analysis of the ion flux to the JET outer wall
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-4326/aa515a/meta
Date of publication: January 2017
CDT student name: Andrea Impagnatiello
Journal: Scripta Materialia
Title of paper: Atomically resolved chemical ordering at the nm-thick TiO precipitate/matrix interface in V-4Ti-4Cr alloy
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646216303840
2016 Journal Publications
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Dave Ryan
Journal: Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Experimental studies of high-confinement mode plasma response to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations in ASDEX Upgrade.
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/59/1/014049
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Jack Lovell
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: An FPGA-Based Bolometer for the MAST-U Super-X Divertor
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4961556?journalCode=rsi
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Toroidal mode number determination of ELM associated phenomena on ASDEX Upgrade
Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/58/12/125013
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Jakob Brunner & Dave Thomas
Journal: AIP Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Preliminary measurements of the edge magnetic field pitch from 2-D Doppler backscattering in MAST and NSTX-U
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4962253
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Jakob Brunner & Jo Chorley & Dave Thomas
Journal: AIP Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Modifications to the synthetic aperture microwave imaging diagnostic
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4961283
Date of publication: November 2016
CDT student name: Dave Thomas & Jakob Brunner
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Overview of recent physics results from MAST
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06047
Date of publication: October 2016
CDT student name: Tom Farley
Journal: Nuclear Materials and Energy
Title of paper: Identification of intermittent transport in the scrape-off layer of MAST through high speed imaging
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179116300667
Date of publication: October 2016
CDT student name: David Shaw
Journal: Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Title of paper: Mechanisms behind surface modification of polypropylene film using an atmospheric-pressure plasma jet
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0963-0252/25/6/065018
Date of publication: October 2016
CDT student name: Francesco Ferroni
Journal: Fusion Engineering and Design
Title of paper: A study of helium bubble production in 10 keV He+ irradiated tungsten
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092037961730529X
Date of publication: August 2016
CDT student name: Jarrod Leddy & Matt Thomas
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Influence of plasma turbulence on microwave propagation
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/58/10/105008
Date of publication: August 2016
CDT student name: Tom Farley & Luke Easy
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Multi-code analysis of scrape-off layer filament dynamics in MAST
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/58/10/105002/meta
Date of publication: July 2016
CDT student name: Matt Thomas
Journal: Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Title of paper: Experimental investigation of electron transport across a magnetic field barrier in electropositive and electronegative plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0963-0252/25/4/045018/meta
Date of publication: July 2016
CDT student name: Laszlo Horvath
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Experimental investigation of the radial structure of energetic particle driven modes
Link: https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/11/112003
Date of publication: June 2016
CDT student name: Robbie Abernethy
Journal: Materials Science and Technology
Title of paper: Predicting the performance of tungsten in a fusion environment: a literature review
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02670836.2016.1185260
Date of publication: June 2016
CDT student name: Arka Bokshi
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: The response of toroidal drift modes to profile evolution: a model for small-ELMs in tokamak plasmas?
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/58/7/075011/meta
Date of publication: May 2016
CDT student name: Jo Chorley, Jakob Brunner, Dave Thomas
Journal: Fusion Science & Technology
Title of paper: GPU-based data processing for 2D microwave imaging on MAST
Link: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17463/
Date of publication: April 2016
CDT student name: David Blackman
Journal: Journal of Physics Conference Series
Title of paper: Probing ultrafast dynamics in a solid-density plasma created by an intense femtosecond laser
Link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/688/1/012001
Date of publication: January 2016
CDT student name: James Beal
Journal: Physica Scripta
Title of paper: Deposition in the inner and outer corners of the JET divertor with carbon and metallic ITER-like walls
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/T167/1/014052/meta
Date of publication: January 2016
CDT student name: Luke Easy
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Investigation of the effect of resistivity on scrape off layer filaments using three-dimensional simulations.
Link: http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4940330
Date of publication: January 2016
CDT student name: Luke Easy
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Blob dynamics in the TORPEX experiment: a multi-code validation
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/58/4/044005/meta
Date of publication: January 2016
CDT student name: Dave Thomas
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Observations of 2D Doppler backscattering on MAST
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/56/2/026013
2015 Journal Publications
Date of publication: November 2015
CDT student name: Luke Easy
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: The effects of shape and amplitude on the velocity of scrape-off layer filaments
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/58/1/014030/meta
Date of publication: November 2015
CDT student name: Sophia Henneberg
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Interacting filamentary eruptions in mangetized plasmas
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/57/12/125010/meta
Date of publication: October 2015
CDT student name: Luke Easy
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Numerical investigation of isolated filament motion in a realistic tokamak geometry
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/55/11/113022/meta
Date of publication: October 2015
CDT student name: Michael Wigram
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Design studies and commissioning plans for plasma acceleration research station experimental program
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4934711
Date of publication: August 2015
CDT student name: James Beal
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Title of paper: Analysis of rotating collectors from the private region of JET with carbon wall and metallic ITER-like Wall
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311514006692
Date of publication: August 2015
CDT student name: Dave Ryan
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Title of paper: Toroidal modelling of resonant magnetic perturbations response in ASDEX-Upgrade: coupling between field pitch aligned response and kink amplification
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0741-3335/57/9/095008/meta
Date of publication: August 2015
CDT student name: James Beal
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Title of paper: Modelling of the material transport and layer formation in the divertor of JET: Comparison of ITER-like wall with full carbon wall conditions
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311514007569
Date of publication: August 2015
CDT student name: Dave Blackman
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Role of low temperature resistivity on fast electron transport in disordered aluminium and copper
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4928112
Date of publication: August 2015
CDT student name: Sophia Henneberg
Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society
Title of paper: Explosive instability and erupting flux tubes in a magnetized plasma
Link: http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/471/2180/20140913
Date of publication: July 2015
CDT student name: Jakob Brunner
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Observations of 2D Doppler backscattering on MAST
Link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.06555v1.pdf
Date of publication: June 2015
CDT student name: Valentin Aslanyan
Journal: Physical Review
Title of paper: Ionization rate coefficients in warm dense plasmas
Link: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.91.063106
Date of publication: June 2015
CDT student name: Valentin Aslanyan
Journal: Physical Review Applied
Title of paper: Ablation of Submicrometer Holes Using an Extreme-Ultraviolet Laser
Link: https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.3.064013
Date of publication: June 2015
CDT student name: Dave Ryan
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Modelling toroidal rotation damping in ITER due to external 3D fields
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/55/6/063027/meta
Date of publication: May 2015
CDT student name: Francesco Ferroni
Journal: Acta Materialia
Title of paper: High temperature annealing of ion irradiated tungsten
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359645415000804
Date of publication: April 2015
CDT student name: Frances Lockwood-Estrin
Journal: Journal of Applied Physics
Title of paper: The use of segmented cathodes to determine the spoke current density distribution in high power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4918720
Date of publication: March 2015
CDT student name: Dave Ryan
Journal: Nuclear Fusion
Title of paper: Effect of resonant magnetic perturbations on low collisionality discharges in MAST and a comparison with ASDEX Upgrade
Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0029-5515/55/4/043011/meta
2014 Journal Publications
Date of publication: December 2014
CDT student name: Luke Easy
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Three dimensional simulations of plasma filaments in the scrape off layer: A comparison with models of reduced dimensionality
Link: http://doi.org/10.1063/1.4904207
Date of publication: November 2014
CDT student name: Sophia Henneberg
Journal: Plasma Physics
Title of paper: Explosive Instability and Erupting Flux Tubes in a Magnetised Plasma Atmosphere
Link: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.7797.pdf
Date of publication: October 2014
CDT student name: Jakob Brunner
Journal: Contributions to Plasma Physics
Title of paper: Ion Drift Measurements Around a Grounded Sphere in Magnetized Sub-Sonic Plasma Flows
Link: www.researchgate.net/publication/266750357
Date of publication: October 2014
CDT student name: Ellie Tubman
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Title of paper: Nanosecond Imaging of Shock- and Jet-Like Features
Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6850042
Date of publication: June 2014
CDT student name: Valentin Aslanyan
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Local thermodynamic equilibrium in rapidly heated high energy density plasmas
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4882235
Date of publication: June 2014
CDT student name: Dave Blackman
Journal: Physics of Plasmas
Title of paper: Ultrafast dynamics of a near-solid-density layer in an intense femtosecond laser-excited plasma
Link: http://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.4882675
Date of publication: June 2014
CDT student name: Jakob Brunner
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments
Title of paper: Design of a real-time two-color interferometer for MAST Upgrade
Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4894394
Date of publication: June 2014
CDT student name: Jonathan Brodrick
Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Title of paper: Mechanism for radiation damage resistance in yttrium oxide dispersion strengthened steels
Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022311513011951?via%3Dihub
Date of publication: March 2014
CDT student name: Tom Farley
Journal: March 2014
Title of paper: Electron–Phonon Coupling and Superconducting Critical Temperature of the YIr2Si2 and LaIr2Si2 High-Temperature Polymorphs from First-Principles
Link: http://journals.jps.jp/doi/abs/10.7566/JPSJ.83.044710
2013 Journal Publications
Date of publication: September 2013
CDT student name: Valentin Aslanyan
Journal: Proceedings of SPIE
Title of paper: High energy density plasmas produced by x-ray and extreme ultraviolet lasers
Link: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=1746165