Emeritus ProfessorSteven Rose
Senior Research Investigator
Department of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
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- Senior Research InvestigatorDepartment of Physics - Faculty of Natural Sciences
- 020 7594 7635 (Work)
- 728, Blackett Laboratory, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
My research concentrates on the design and analysis of experiments fielded on high-power lasers and pulsed-power machines. These experiments produce, in miniature and for a very short time, extreme plasma conditions similar to those found in a variety of astrophysical objects. This subject is known as High Energy Density Physics (see link in side panel). For example recent experiments have investigated plasmas similar to those in the interior of the Sun.
As well as being of wide scientific interest this work is strongly connected to the study of Inertial Confinement Fusion in which thermonuclear fusion energy is generated in the laboratory using plasmas of high energy density. We have recently shown that Inertial Confinement Fusion provides new opportunities for experiments that probe fundamental physics ranging from particle physics through atomic and nuclear physics to stellar structure and on to cosmology.
Our work on using high-power lasers to create matter from light using the two-photon Breit-Wheeler process can be found in our Nature Photonics paper (see link in side panel). Recent experiments which have attempted to demonstrate the process are currently being analysed.
My research concentrates on the design and analysis of experiments fielded on high-power lasers and pulsed-power machines. These experiments produce, in miniature and for a very short time, extreme plasma conditions similar to those found in a variety of astrophysical objects. This subject is known as High Energy Density Physics (see link in side panel). For example recent experiments have investigated plasmas similar to those in the interior of the Sun.
As well as being of wide scientific interest this work is strongly connected to the study of Inertial Confinement Fusion in which thermonuclear fusion energy is generated in the laboratory using plasmas of high energy density. We have recently shown that Inertial Confinement Fusion provides new opportunities for experiments that probe fundamental physics ranging from particle physics through atomic and nuclear physics to stellar structure and on to cosmology.
Our work on using high-power lasers to create matter from light using the two-photon Breit-Wheeler process can be found in our Nature Photonics paper (see link in side panel). Recent experiments which have attempted to demonstrate the process are currently being analysed.