RCUK BT Grant project highlights

• Nature paper (2004) on experimental realisation of quasi-monoenergetic beams produced using laser wakefield acceleration (LWFA)!
• PRL paper (2004) on the electro-optic diagnostic for measuring fs electron bunch profiles.
• PRL paper (2005) on calculations of efficiency and energy spread in LWFA.
• PRL paper (2005) on generation of electrons in excess of 300MeV.
• PRL paper (2006) on production of quasi-monoenergetic beams (50MeV) with somewhat relaxed laser requirements.
• PRL paper (2006) on evidence of monoenergetic beam (150MeV) acceleration in the first plasma wave period.
• Nature Physics paper (2006) on GeV monoenergetic beams accelerated in a plasma channel.
• PRL paper (2007) on measurements and modelling of wave-breaking radiation during the generation of quasi-monoenergetic beams (40MeV).
• PRL paper (2007) on the effects of laser-focusing conditions for monoenergetic beam (60MeV) acceleration.