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X-ray generation in high energy density plasmas (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Christopher Ridgers (University of York) High power lasers produce extremely strong electromagnetic fields in their focus. The fields rapidly strip electrons from atoms to produce a plasma. These electrons...
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Laser-plasma based x-ray source development with applications in inertial fusion (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Chris Murphy (University of York) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is one of the two mainstream approaches to fusion energy (along with MCF) and involves compression of hydrogen to...
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Measuring the plasma physics impact on nuclear reaction cross-sections and lifetimes (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Chris Murphy (University of York) & Andrew Simons (AWE) Fusion in supernovae or neutron star collisions are responsible for generating around half of all material consisting of elements...
Dust transport and mobilisation in Mast-U (plasma strand)
Supervisor: Dr Paul Bryant (University of Liverpool) Dust can have a significant impact on reactor performance and efficiency [1]. Energy can be radiated from the superheated dust cooling the core...
Developing a new approach to efficient, atomistically informed, dynamic compression simulations (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Andy Higginbotham (University of York) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is one of a number of research fields which rely on the dynamic compression of materials. These approaches compress...
Non-linear modelling of fast particle interactions with MHD and disruptions in spherical tokamaks (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Marco Cecconello (Durham University), Alexandre Fil & Christopher Ham (UKAEA) The path to high performance fusion power plants requires an understanding of the interaction between fast particles in the...
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Femtosecond imaging of ultra-relativistic plasma phenomena (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Christopher Ridgers & Andrew Higginbotham (University of York) Modern high power lasers enable the focussing of light to extremely high intensities – up to 26 orders of magnitude higher...
Advanced inertial confinement fusion schemes (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr John Pasley (University of York) The inertial confinement approach to fusion involves assembling small quantities of deuterium-tritium fuel to high densities and temperatures such that thermonuclear ignition and...
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Determining the role of plasma-molecule interactions on tokamak power exhaust (plasma strand project)
Supervisors: Dr Kirsty McKay (University of Liverpool), Kevin Verhaegh / James Harrison (UKAEA) In present-day tokamak experiments, there is strong evidence the interactions between plasma, atoms and molecules plays a...
Understanding Laguerre-Gaussian laser-plasma interactions for applications in inertial fusion (plasma strand project)
Supervisor: Dr Chris Murphy (University of York) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is one of the two mainstream approaches to fusion energy (along with MCF) and involves compression of hydrogen to...
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Science and Technology of Fusion Energy