1. F. N. Beg, M. Zakaullah, M. Nisar and G. Murtaza, "Role of anode length in Mather type Plasma Focus,” Mod. Phys. Lett. B6, 593 (1992).

2. F. N. Beg, M. Zakaullah, G. Murtaza and M. Beg, "Effect of Insulator Sleeve material on neutron emission in a Mather type Plasma Focus," Physica Scripta 46, 152-154 (1992).

3. A. R. Bell, F. Beg, Z. Chang, A. Dangor, C. Danson, C. Edwards, A. Fews, M. Hutchinson, S. Luan, P. Lee, P. Norreys, R. Smith P. F. Taday and F. Zhao, "Observation of plasma confinement in picosecond laser plasma interactions," Phys. Rev., E 48, 2087-2093 (1993).

4. A. P. Fews, P. A. Norreys, F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, C. N. Danson, P. Lee and S. J. Rose, "Plasma Ion Emission from High-Intensity Picosecond Laser-Pulse Interactions with Solid Targets,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 1801-1804 (1994).

5. M. Zakaullah, G. Murtaza, I. Ahmad, Farhat N. Beg, M. M. Beg and M. Shabbir, "Comparative Study of Low Energy Mather type Plasma Focus Devices," Plasma Sources: Science and Technology 4, 117-124 (1995).

6. M. G. Haines, A. E. Dangor, M. Coppins, P. Choi, I. H. Mitchell, J. P. Chittenden, J. M. Bayley, R. F . Aliaga-Rossel, T. D. Arber, F. Beg, A. R. Bell, J. Scheffel, G. Decker, P. Russell and J. Worley, "Fiber Z-pinch experiments and calculations in the finite Larmor radius regime," Laser and Particle Beams 14, 261-271 (1996).

7. M. Tatarakis, F.N. Beg, P. Lee, A. E. Dangor and S. Moustaizis, "X-ray emission from plasmas generated by 450 fs Excimer laser pulses,” Physica Scripta 55, 651-653 (1997).

8. P. Lee, H. Schmidt, F.N. Beg, A. E. Dangor, M. Tatarakis, C. N. Danson, A. P. Fews and P. A. Norreys, “Neutrons from a high intensity (>1018 Wcm-2) laser plasma interaction,” J. Fizik Malaysia 18, 43 (1997).

9. F.N. Beg, A.R. Bell, A.E. Dangor, C. N. Danson, A. P. Fews, M. E. Glinsky, B. A .Hammel, P. Lee, P. A. Norreys, and M. Tatarakis," A study of picosecond laser-solid interactions up to 10-19 Wcm-2,” Physics of Plasmas 4, 447-457 (1997).

10. F. N. Beg, A. E. Dangor, P. Lee, M. Tatarakis, S. L. Niffikeer and M. G. Haines, "Optical and x-ray observations of carbon and aluminum fiber Z-pinch plasmas," Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 39, 1-25 (1997).

11. J. P. Chittenden, I. H. Mitchell, R. Aliaga-Rossel, J. M. Bayley, F. N. Beg, A. Lorenz, M. G. Haines and G. Decker, "The dynamics of bifurcating bright spots in fibre Z-pinch plasmas ” Phys. of Plasmas 4, 2967-2971 (1997).

12. P. A. Norreys, A. P. Fews, F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, P. Lee, M. B. Nelson, H. Schmidt, M. Tatarakis and M. D. Cable, "Neutron production from picosecond laser irradiation of deuterated targets at intensities of 10 -19 Wcm-2, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 40, 175-182 (1998).

13. A. Lorenz, F. N. Beg, J. Ruiz-Camacho, J. Worley and A. E. Dangor, "Influence of a Prepulse Current on a Fiber Z-Pinch," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 361-364 (1998).

14. M. Tatarakis, J. R. Davies, P. Lee, P. A. Norreys, N. Kassapakis, F. N. Beg, A. R. Bell, M. G. Haines and A. E. Dangor, “Plasma formation on the front and rear of plastic targets due to high-intensity laser-generated fast electrons,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 999-1002 (1998).

15. F. N. Beg, S. D. Moustaizis, M. Tatarakis, P. Lee, A. Dyson and A. E. Dangor, "X-ray emission from plasmas formed using an excimer laser with various pulse lengths," J. of Phys. D: Applied Physics 31, 2777-2782 (1998).

16. P. A. Norreys, M. Santala, E. Clark, M. Zepf, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, X. Fang, P. Graham, T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, K. W. D. Ledingham, A. Cresswell, D. C. W. Sanderson, J. Magill, A. Machacek, J. S. Wark, R. Allott, B. Kennedy, and D. Neely, "Observation of a highly directional gamma-ray beam from ultra-short, ultra-intense laser pulse interactions with solids,” Phys. of Plasmas 6, 2150-2156 (1999).

17. C. Deeney, C. A. Coverdale, M. R. Douglas, T. J. Nash, R. B. Spielman, K. W. Struve, K. G. Whitney, J. W. Thornhill, J. P. Apruzese, R. W. Clark, J. Davis, F. N. Beg and J. Ruiz-Camacho, “Titanium K-shell x-ray production from high velocity wire array implosions on the 20 MA Z accelerator,” Physics of Plasmas 6, 2081-2088 (1999).

18. J. Ruiz Camacho, F. N. Beg, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, E. L. Clark and I. Ross, "Z-pinch Discharges in aluminum and tungsten wires," Physics of Plasmas 6, 2579-2587 (1999).

19. C. Deeney, C. A. Coverdale, M. R. Douglas, K. W. Struve, R. B. Spielman, W. A. Stygar, D. L. Paterson, N. F. Roderick, M. G. Haines, F. N. Beg and J. Ruiz-Camacho, “Radiative properties of high wire number tungsten arrays with implosion times upto 250 ns,” Physics of Plasmas 6, 3576-3586 (1999).

20. P. A. Norreys, M. Bakarezos, L. Barringer, M. Borgheshi, F. N. Beg, M. Castro-Colins, D. Chambers, A. E. Dangor, C. N. Danson, A. Djaoui, A. P. Fews, R. Gaillard, P. Gibbon, L. Gizzi, A. J. Mackinnon, C. Meyer, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, S. Moustaizis, S. G. Preston, A. Pukhov, S. J. Rose, M. Tatarakis, J. S. Wark, O. Willi, M. Zepf and J. Zhang, "Studies of the fast ignition route to inertial confinement fusion at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory," Fusion Eng. and Design 44, 239-243 (1999).

21. E. L. Clark. K. Krushelnick, J. R. Davies, M. Zepf, M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg, A. Machacek, P. A. Norreys, M.I.K. Santala, I. Watts and A. E. Dangor, “Measurements of energetic proton transport through magnetized plasma from intense laser interactions with solids,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 670-673 (2000).

22. K.W.D. Ledingham, I. Spencer, T. McCanny, R. P. Singal, M.I.K. Santala, E. Clark, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, M. Zepf, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, P. A. Norreys, R. Allot, D. Neely, R. J. Clarke, A. Machack, J. S. Wark, A. J. Cresswell, D.C.W. Sanderson and J. Magill, “Photonuclear physics when a multiterawatt laser pulse interacts with solid targets,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 899-902 (2000).

23. M.I.K. Santala, M. Zepf, I. Watts, F. N. Beg, E. Clark, M. Tatarakis, K. Krushelnick, A. E. Dangor, T. McCanny, I. Spencer, R. P. Singhal, K.W.D. Ledingham, S. C. Wilks, A. Machacek, J. S. Wark, R. Allot, R. Clarke and P. Norreys, "Effect of the plasma density scale-length on the direction of fast electrons in relativistic laser-solid interactions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1459-1462 (2000).

24. M. G. Haines, S. V. Lebedev, J. P. Chittenden, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland and A. E. Dangor, “The past, present and future of Z-pinches,” Physics of Plasmas 7, 1672-1680 (2000).

25. K. Krushelnick, E. L. Clark, M. Zepf, J. R. Davies, F. N. Beg, A. Machacek, M.I.K. Santala, M. Tatarakis, I. Watts, P.A. Norreys and A. E. Dangor, “Energetic proton production from relativistic laser interaction with high density plasmas,” Physics of Plasmas 7, 2055-2061 (2000).

26. J. P. Chittenden, S. V. Lebedev, J. Ruiz-Camacho, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, C. A. Jennings, A. R. Bell, M. G. Haines, S. A. Pikuz, T. A. Shelkovenko and D.A. Hammer, "Plasma formation in metallic wire Z-pinches," Phys. Rev. E. 61, 4370-4380 (2000).

27. S. V. Lebedev, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, S. A. Pikuz and T. A. Shelkovenko, “Effect of Core-Corona Plasma Structure on Seeding of Instabilities in Wire Array Z-Pinches,” Phy. Rev. Lett. 85, 98-101 (2000).

28. E. L. Clark. K. Krushelnick, M. Zepf, F. N. Beg, M. Tatarakis, A. Machacek, M.I.K. Santala, I. Watts, P. A. Norreys and A. E. Dangor, “Energetic heavy Ion and proton generation from ultra intense laser interactions with solids,” Phy. Rev. Lett. 85, 1654-1657 (2000).

29. K. Krushelnick, E. L. Clark, R. Allot, F. N. Beg, C. N. Danson, A. Machacek, V. Malka, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, P. A. Norreys, M. R. Salvati, M.I.K. Santala, M. Tatarakis, I. Watts, M. Zepf and A. E. Dangor, “Ultrahigh-Intensity Laser-Produced Plasmas as a Compact Heavy Ion Injector Source,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 28, 1184-1189 (2000).

30. F. N. Beg, I. Ross A. Lorenz, J. Worley, A. E. Dangor and M. G. Haines, "Study of x-ray emission from a table top plasma focus and its application as an x-ray backlighter," J.

Applied Physics 88, 3225-3230 (2000).

31. S. V. Lebedev, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, M. Zakaullah, S. A. Pikuz, T. A. Shelkovenko and D. A. Hammer, “X-ray backlighting of wire array Z-pinch implosions using X-pinch," Rev. Sci. Instrum. 72, 671-673 (2001).

32. M. Santala, M. Zepf, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, I. Watts, K.W.D. Ledingham, T. McCanny, I. Spencer, A. Machacek, R. Allot, R. J. Clarke and P. A. Norreys, "Production of radioactive nuclides by energetic protons from intense laser plasma interactions," Applied Physics Letters 78, 19-21 (2001).

33. J. P. Chittenden, S. V. Lebedev, S. N. Bland, F.N. Beg, and M. G. Haines, "One, two and three-dimensional modeling of the different phases of wire array Z pinch evolution," Physics of Plasmas 8, 2305-2314 (2001).

34. M. Zepf, E. L. Clark, K. Krushelnick, F. N. Beg, C. Escoda, A. E. Dangor, M.I.K. Santala, M. Tatarakis, I. F. Watts, P. A. Norreys, R. J. Clarke, J. R. Davies, M. A. Sinclair, R. D. Edwards, T. J. Goldsack, I. Spencer and K.W.D. Ledingham, “Fast particle generation and energy transport in laser-solid interactions,” Physics of Plasmas 8, 2323-2330 (2001).

35. S. V. Lebedev, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, J. P. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, K. H. Kwek, S. A. Pikuz and T. A. Shelkovenko, “Effect of discrete wires on the implosion dynamics of wire array z-pinches,” Physics of Plasmas 8, 3734-3747 (2001).

36. J. P. Chittenden, S. V. Lebedev, S. N. Bland, J. Ruiz-Camacho, F. N. Beg and M. G. Haines, “Two- and three- dimensional modeling of the different phases of wire-array Z-pinch evolution,” Laser and Particle Beams 19, 323-343 (2001).

37. S. V. Lebedev, F.N. Beg, S. N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, A.E. Dangor, M.G. Haines, S.A. Pikuz and T.A. Shelkovenko, “Plasma formation and the implosion phase of wire array Z-pinch experiments,” Laser and Particle Beams 19, 355-376 (2001).

38. F.N. Beg, S.V. Lebedev, S.N. Bland, J. Chittenden, A.E. Dangor and M.G. Haines, “The effect of current prepulse on wire array z-pinch implosions,” Physics of Plasmas 9, 375-377 (2002).

39. S.V. Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, F.N. Beg, S.N. Bland, A. Ciardi, D. Ampleford, S. Hughes, M.G. Haines, A. Frank and E.G. Blackman, “Laboratory Astrophysics and Collimated Stellar Outflows: The production of rediatively cooled hypersonic plasma jets,” Astrophysical Journal 564, 113-119 (2002).

40. M. Tatarakis, I. Watts. F.N. Beg, E.L. Clark, A.E. Dangor, A. Gopal, M.G. Haines, P.A. Norreys, U. Wagner, M.-S. Wei, M. Zepf and K. Krushelnick, “Laser technology - Measuring huge magnetic fields,” Nature 415 (6869), 280 (2002).

41. R.D. Edwards, M.A. Sinclair, T.J. Goldsack, K. Krushelnick, F.N. Beg, E.L. Clark, A.E. Dangor, Z. Najmudin, M. Tatarakis, B. Walton, M. Zepf, K.W.D. Ledingham, I. Spencer, P.A. Norreys, R.J. Clarke, R. Kodama, Y. Toyama and M. Tampo, “Characterization of a gamma-ray source based on a laser-plasma accelerator with applications to radiography,” Applied Physics Letters 80, 2129-2131 (2002).

42. F.N. Beg, K. Krushelnick, C. Gower, S. Torn, A.E. Dangor, A. Howard, T. Sumner, A. Bewick, V. Lebedenko, J. Dawson, D. Davidge, M. Joshi and J.R. Gillespie, “Table-top neutron source for characterization and calibration of dark matter detectors,” Applied Physics Letters 80, 3009-3011 (2002).

43. M. Tatarakis, A. Gopal, I. Watts, F.N. Beg, A.E. Dangor, K. Krushelnick, U. Wagner, P.A. Norreys, E.L. Clark, M. Zepf and R. Evans, “Measurements of ultra-strong magnetic fields during relativistic laser-plasma interactions,” Physics of Plasmas 9, 2244-2250 (2002).

44. S.V. Lebedev, F.N. Beg, S.N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, A.E. Dangor and M.G. Haines, “Snowplow-like behavior in the implosion phase of wire array Z-pinches,” Physics of Plasmas 9, 2293-2301 (2002).

45. F. N. Beg, S. V. Lebedev, S. Bland, J. Chittenden, A. E. Dangor and M. G. Haines, “The dynamics of single and nested nickel wire array Z-pinch implosions,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 30, 552-558 (2002).

46. K. Krushelnick, I. Watts, M. Tatarakis, A. Gopal, U. Wagner, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, P. A. Norreys, M-S Wei and M. Zepf, “Using self-generated harmonics as a diagnostic of high intensity laser-produced plasmas,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 44, B233-B245 (2002).

47. I. Spencer, K.W.D, Ledingham, R.P. Singhal, T. McCanny, P. McKenna, E. L. Clark, K. Krushelnick , M. Zepf, F. N. Beg , M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, R. D. Edwards, M. A. Sinclair, P.A. Norreys, R. J. Clarke and R. M. Allott, “A nearly real time high temperature laser-plasma diagnostic using photonuclear reactions in tantalum,” Rev. Sci. Instr. 73, 3801-3805 (2002).

48. M. Zepf, E. L. Clark, F. N. Beg, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, A. Gopal, K. Krushelnick, P. Norreys, M. Tatarakis, U. Wagner and M. S. Wei, “Proton acceleration from high-intensity laser interactions with thin foil targets,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 064801 (2003).

49. M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. D. Edwards, R. G. Evans, T. J. Goldsack, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. A. Norreys, M. A. Sinclair, M.-S. Wei, M. Zepf and K. Krushelnick, “Propagation Instabilities of High-Intensity Laser-Produced Electron Beams,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 175001 (2003).

50. F. N. Beg, K. Krushelnick, P. Lichtsteiner, A. Meakins, A. Kennedy, N. Kajumba, G.

Burt, and A. E. Dangor, “Table-top X-pinch for x-ray radiography,” Applied Physics Letters 82, 4602-4604 (2003).

51. P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham, T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, I. Spencer, M. I. K. Santala , F. N. Beg , K. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, M. S. Wei, E. L. Clark, R. J. Clarke, K. L. Lancaster, P. A. Norreys, K. Spohr, R. Chapman and M. Zepf, “Demonstration of fusion-evaporation and direct-interaction nuclear reactions using high-intensity laser-plasma-accelerated ion beams,“ Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 075006 (2003).

52. P. McKenna, K. W. D. Ledingham , T. McCanny, R. P. Singhal, I. Spencer, E. L. Clark, F. N. Beg , K. Krushelnick, M. S. Wei, J. Galy, J. Magill, R. J. Clarke, K. L. Lancaster, P. A. Norreys, K. Spohr and R. Chapman, “Effect of target heating on ion-induced reactions in high-intensity laser-plasma interactions,” Applied Physics Letters 83, 2763-2765 (2003).

53. F. N. Beg, J. Ruiz-Camacho, M. G. Haines and A. E. Dangor, “Plasma dynamics during the evolution of two wire Z-pinch,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 46, 1-10 (2004).

54. F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, M. S. Wei, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, A. Gopal, K. L. Lancaster, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna, P. A. Norreys, M.Tatarakis, M. Zepf and K. Krushelnick, “ High-intensity-laser-driven Z-pinch,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 095001-1 (2004).

55. F. N. Beg, M. S. Wei, A. E. Dangor, A. Gopal, M. Tatarakis, K. Krushelnick, P. Gibbon, E. L. Clark, R. G. Evans, K. L. Lancaster, P. Norreys, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna and M. Zepf, “Target charging effects on proton acceleration during high intensity short pulse laser-solid interactions,” Applied Physics Letters 84 , 2766-2768 (2004).

56. F. N. Beg, M. S. Wei, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, P. Gibbon, A. Gopal, K. L. Lancaster, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna, P. A. Norreys, M.Tatarakis, M. Zepf and K. Krushelnick, “Return current and proton emission from short pulse laser interactions with wire targets,” Physics of Plasmas 11, 2806-2813 (2004).

57. P. Gibbon, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, R. G. Evans and M. Zepf, “Tree-Code Simulations of Proton Acceleration From Laser-Irradiated Wire Targets,” Physics of Plasmas 11, 4032-4040 (2004).

58. K. L. Lancaster, S. Karsch, H. Habara, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, R. Freeman, M. H. Key, J. A. King, R. Kodama, K. Krushelnick, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna, C. D. Murphy, P. A. Norreys, R. Stephens, C. Stoeckl, Y. Toyama, M. S. Wei, M. Zepf, “Characterization of Li-7(p,n)Be-7 neutron yields from laser produced ion beams for fast neutron radiography,” Physics of Plasmas 11, 3404-3408 (2004).

59. U. Wagner, M. Tatarakis, A. Gopal, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, M. G. Haines, S. P. D. Mangles, P. A. Norreys, M.-S. Wei, M. Zepf, and K. Krushelnick, “Laboratory measurements of 0.7 GG magnetic fields generated during high-intensity laser interactions with dense plasmas,” Phys. Rev. E 70, 026401 (2004).

60. M. S. Wei, F. N. Beg, E.L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, A. Gopal, K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna, P. A. Norreys, M. Tatarakis, M. Zepf, and K. Krushelnick, “Observations of the filamentation of high-intensity laser-produced electron beams,” Phys Rev. E 70, 056412 (2004).

61. K. Krushelnick, E.L. Clark, F.N. Beg, A.E. Dangor, Z. Najmudin, P.A. Norreys, M. Wei and M. Zepf, “High intensity laser-plasma sources of ions—physics and future applications,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 47, B451-B463 (2005).

62. P.A. Norreys, J.S. Green, J.R. Davies, M. Tatarakis, E.L. Clark, F.N. Beg, A.E. Dangor, K.L. Lancaster, M.S. Wei, M. Zepf and K. Krushelnick, “Observation of annular electron beam transport in multi-TeraWatt laser-solid interactions,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 48, L11-L22 (2006).

63. J.S. Green, S.N. Bland, M. Collett, A.E. Dangor, K. Krushelnick, F.N. Beg and I. Ross, “Effect of wire number on x-pinch discharges,” Applied Physics Letters 88, 261501 (2006).

64. S.C. Bott, S.V. Lebedev, D.J. Ampleford, S.N. Bland, J.P. Chittenden, A. Ciardi, M.G. Haines, C. Jennings, M. Sherlock, G. Hall, J. Rapley, F.N. Beg and J. Palmer, “Dynamics of cylindrically converging precursor plasma flow in wire-array Z-pinch experiments,” Phy. Rev. E 74, 046403 (2006).

65. F.N. Beg, A. Ciardi, I. Ross, Y. Zhu, A.E. Dangor and K. Krushelnick, “Jet Formation and Current Transfer in X-Pinches,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 34, 2325-2329 (2006).

66. F. N. Beg, R.B. Stephens and H.-W. Xu, D. Haas, S. Eddinger, G. Tynan and E. Shipton, B. DeBono, K. Wagschal, “Compact X-pinch based point x-ray source for phase contrast imaging of inertial confinement fusion capsules,” Applied Physics Letters 89, 101502 (2006).

67. E. Baronova, B. Bucher, D. Haas and D. Fedin, A. Stepanenko, F.N. Beg, “Three-channel x-ray crystal spectrometer for diagnosing high energy density plasmas,” Rev. Scien. Instr. 77 (10), 103104 (2006).

68. S. Mahmood, S.V. Springham, T. Zhang, R.S. Rawat and T.L. Tan, M. Krishnan, F.N. Beg, S. Lee, H. Schmidt, P. Lee, “Novel fast-neutron activation counter for high repetition rate measurements,” Rev. Scien. Instr. 77, 10E713 (4 pp.) (2006).

69. Anthony Link, Enam A. Chowdhury, John T. Morrison, Vladimir M. Ovchinnikov, Dustin Offermann, Linn Van Woerkom and Richard Freeman, John Pasley, Erik Shipton and Farhat Beg, Patrick Rambo, Jens Schwarz, Matthias Geissel, Aaron Edens and John L. Porter, “Development of an in situ peak intensity measurement method for ultraintense single shot laser-plasma experiments at the Sandia Z petawatt facility,” Rev. Scien. Instr. 77, 10E723 (2006).

70. M.S. Wei, J.R. Davies, E.L. Clark, F.N. Beg, A. Gopal and M. Tatarakis, L. Willingale, P. Nilson and A.E. Dangor, P.A. Norreys, M. Zepf, K. Krushelnick, “ Reduction of proton acceleration in high-intensity laser interaction with solid two-layer targets,” Phys. Plasmas 13, 123101 (2006).

71. J. Ruiz-Camacho, F. N. Beg and P. Lee, “Comparison of sensitivities of Moire deflectometry and interferometry to measure electron densities in Z-pinch plasmas”, J. Physics D: Applied Physics 40, 2026 (2007).

72. D. Haas, S. C. Bott, V. Vikhrev, Y. Eshaq, U. Ueda, T. Zhang, E. Boronova, S. I.Krasheninnnikov and F. N. Beg, “Dynamics of low density coronal plasma in low current x- pinches”, Plasma Physics & Controlled Fusion 49, 1151 (2007).

73. F.N. Beg, T. Zhang, D. Fedin, B. Beagen, E. Chua, J.Y. Lee, R.S. Rawat, P. Lee, “Study of energy transfer in table-top X-pinch driven by a water line,” Physica Scripta 76, 134-138 (2007).

74. S. N. Chen, G. Gregori, H.-K. Chung, R. G. Evans , R. R. Freeman, E. Garcia Saiz, S. H. Glenzer, S. B. Hansen, F. Y. Khattak, J. A. King, A. J. Mackinnon, M. M. Notley, J. R. Pasley, P. K. Patel, D. Riley, R. B. Stephens, R. L. Weber, S. C. Wilks and F. N. Beg “Creation of hot dense matter in short-pulse laser-plasma interaction with tamped titanium foils”, Physics of Plasmas 14, 102701 (2007).

75. J.S. Green, K.L. Lancaster, C.D. Gregory, K.U. Akli, F.N. Beg, S. Chen, D. Clark, R.R. Freeman, S. Hawkes, C. Hernandez-Gomez, H. Habara, R. Heathcote, D.S. Hey, K. Highbarger, M.H. Key, R. Kodama, K. Krushelnick, I.Musgrave, H. Nakamura, M. Nakatsutsumi, N. Patel, R. Stephens,M. Storm, M. Tampo, W. Theobald, L. Van Woerkom, R. Weber, M.S. Wei, N.C. Woolsey, and P.A. Norreys, “Surface heating of wire plasmas using laser irradiated cone geometries,” Nature Physics 12, (2007).

76. J. Pasley, M. Wei, E. Shipton, S.Chen, T. Ma, F. N. Beg, N. Alexander, R. Stephens, A. Macphee, D. Hey, S. Le Pape, P. Patel, A. Mackinnon, M. Key, D. Offermann, A. Link, E. Chowdhury,L. Van-Woerkom, R. R. Freeman, “Experimental observations of

transport of picosecond laser generated electrons in a nail-like target”, Physics of Plasmas 14, 120701 (2007).

77. J.S. Green, K.L. Lancaster, C.D. Gregory, K.U. Akli, F.N. Beg, S. Chen, D. Clark, R.R. Freeman, S.Hawkes, C. Hernandez-Gomez, H. Habara, R. Heathcote, D.S. Hey, K. Highbarger, M.H. Key, R.Kodama, K. Krushelnick, I. Musgrave, H. Nakamura, M. Nakatsutsumi, N. Patel, R. Stephens, M. Storm, M. Tampo, W. Theobald, L. Van Woerkom, R. Weber, M.S. Wei, N.C. Woolsey, and P.A. Norreys, “Effect of laser intensity on fast-electron-divergence in solid density plasmas ”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 015003 (2008).

78. K. Krushelnick, W. Rozmus, U. Wagner, F. N. Beg, S. Bochkarov, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, A. Gopal, H. Habara, S. P. D. Mangles, P. Norreys, A. Robinson, M.Tatarakis, M. S. Wei and M. Zepf, “Effect of relativistic plasma on extreme-ultraviolet harmonic emission from intense laser-matter interactions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125005, (2008).

79. H. Chen, L. Back, T. Barta, F. N. Beg, D. C. Eder, A. J. Link, A. G. MacPhee, Y. Ping, P. M. Song, A. Throop and L. Van Woerkom, “Absolute calibration of image plates for electrons at energy between 100 keV and 4 MeV” Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 033301 (2008).

80. K. U. Akli , S. B. Hansen, A. J. Kemp, R. R. Freeman, F. N. Beg, D. C. Clark , S. Chen, D. Hey, S. Hatchett, K. Highbarger , E. Giraldez, J. Green, G. Gregori, K. Lancaster, T. Ma, A. J. MacKinnon1, P. Norreys , N. Patel, P. K. Patel1, C. Shearer, R. B. Stephens, C. Stoeckl, M. Storm, W. Theobald, L. Van Woerkom, R. Weber, and M. H. Key. “Laser heating of solid matter by light pressure-driven shocks at ultra-relativistic intensities”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 165002 (2008).

81. M. Nakatsutsumi, J.R.Davies, R.Kodama, J.S.Green, K.L.Lancaster, K.U.Akli, F.N.Beg, S.N.Chen, D.Clark, R.R.Freeman, C.D.Gregory, H.Habara, R.Heathcote, D.S.Hey, K.Highbarger, P.Jaanimagi, M.H.Key, K.Krushelnick, T.Ma, A.MacPhee, A.J.MacKinnon, H.Nakamura, R.B.Stephens, M.Storm, M.Tampo,W.Theobald, L.VanWoerkom, R.L.Weber, M.S.Wei, N.C.Woolsey and P.A.Norreys, “Space and time resolved measurements of the heating of solids to ten million kelvin by a petawatt laser", New Journal of Physics 10, 043046 (2008).

82. L.VanWoerkom, K.U.Akli, T.Bartal, F.N.Beg, S.Chawla, C.D.Chen, E.Chowdhury, R.R.Freeman, D.Hey, M.H.Key, J.A.King, A.Link, T.Ma, A.J.MacKinnon, A.G.MacPhee, D.Offermann, V.Ovchinnikov, P.K.Patel, D.W.Schumacher, R.B.Stephens, and Y.Y.Tsui, “Fast electron generation in cones with ultra intense laser pulses,” Phys. Plas. 15,056304 (2008).

83. M. S. Wei, A. Solodov, J. Pasley, R. B. Stephens, D. Welch and F. N. Beg, “Study of relativistic electron beam production and transport in high intensity laser plasma interaction by the integrated LSP modeling,” Phys. Plas. 15, 08310 (2008).

84. T. Ma, A.G. MacPhee, M.H. Key, K.U. Akli, T. Barbee, R.J. Clarke, C.D. Chen, R.R. Freeman, J.A. King, A. Link, A.J. Mackinnon, D.T. Offermann, V.M. Ovchinnikov, P.K. Patel, R.B. Stephens, L.D. Van Woerkom, B. Zhang, and F.N. Beg, “Extreme Ultraviolet

Imaging of Electron Heated Targets in Petawatt Laser Experiments,” IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 36, 1126-1127 (2008).

85. S.C. Bott, D. M. Haas, U. Ueda, Y. Eshaq, R. Madden, G. Collins, and F. N. Beg, “High Resolution Laser Schlieren Imaging of Coronal Plasma Evolution in 80 kA X-pinches,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36, 1274-1275 (2008).

86. J. S. Green, F. N. Beg, S. N. Bland, M. Collett, A. E. Dangor, and K. Krushelnick, “Dynamics of multiple-wire X-pinches,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36, 1288-1289 (2008).

87. J. Pasley, M. Wei, E. Shipton, S.Chen, T. Ma, F. N. Beg, N. Alexander, R. Stephens, A. G. MacPhee, D. Hey, S. Le Pape, P. Patel, A. Mackinnon, M. Key, D. Offermann, A. Link, E. Chowdhury, L. Van-Woerkom and R. Freeman, “Nail-like targets for laser-plasma interaction experiments,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 36, 1128-1129 (2008).

88. S.C.Bott, D.M.Haas, Y. Eshaq, U.Ueda, S.V.Lebedev, J.P. Chittenden, J.B.Palmer, S.N.Bland, G.N.Halll, D.J.Ampleford, and F.N.Beg, "Quantitative Measurements of Wire Ablation in Tungsten X-pinches at 80 kA", IEEE Trans. Plasma. Sci. 36, 2759 (2008).

89. S. Le Pape, A. Macphee, D. Hey, J. Pasley, P. Patel, A. Mackinnon, M. Key, M. Wei, E. Shipton, S.Chen, T. Ma, F. N. Beg, N. Alexander, R. Stephens, D. Offermann, A. Link, , L. Van Woerkom and R. Freeman, Rev. Sci. Instr. 79,  106104 ( 2008).

  90. T. Ma, F. N. Beg, A. G. MacPhee, H.-K. Chung, M. H. Key, Cliff, Chen, A. J. Mackinnon, P.Patel, S. Hatchett, K. U. Akli, R. B. Stephens, Tony Link, Dustin Offerman, R. R. Freeman, L. D. Van Woerkom and B. Zhang, “Electron heated target temperature measurements in petawatt laser experiments based on extreme ultraviolet imaging and spectroscopy,” Rev. Sci. Instr. 79,  10E312  ( 2008).

91. A. G. MacPhee, K. U. Akli, F. N. Beg, C. D. Chen, H. Chen, R. Clarke, D. S. Hey, R. R. Freeman, A. J. Kemp, M. H. Key, J. A. King, S. Le Pape, A. Link, T. Y. Ma, H. Nakamura, D. T. Offermann, V. M. Ovchinnikov, P. K. Patel, T. W. Phillips, R. B. Stephens, R. Town, Y.Y.Tsui, M. S. Wei, L. D. Van Woerkom, A. J. Mackinnon, “Diagnostics for Fast Ignition Science,” Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 10F302 ( 2008).

92. C.D. Chen, H. Chen, M.H. Key, J.A. King, F.N. Beg, A. Link, A.J. Mackinnon, A.G. MacPhee, P.K. Patel, M. Porkolab, R.B. Stephens, R. Freeman and L/D Van Woerkom, “A Bremsstrahlung Spectrometer using k‐edge and Differential Filters with Image Plate Dosimeters,” Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 10E305  (2008).

93. R. Madden, S. C. Bott, D. Haas, Y. Eshaq, U. Ueda, G. Collins and F. N. Beg, “Cross Point Coronal Plasma Dynamics in 2 and 4 wire X-Pinches” Phys. Plas. 15 , 112701  (2008).

   94. T. Ma, A. G. MacPhee, M. H. Key, S. P. Hatchett, K. U. Akli, T. W. Barbee, R. R.

Freeman, J. A. King, A. Link, D. T. Offermann, V. Ovchinnikov, A. J. Mackinnon, P. K.

Patel, R. B. Stephens L. D. Van Woerkom, B. Zhang and F. N. Beg, “Determination of Electron-Heated Temperatures of Petawatt Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets with 256 eV and 68 eV Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging,” Rev. Sci. Inst. 79, 093507 (2008).

95. A. Gopal, M. Tatarakis, F. N. Beg, E. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, R. G. Evans, P. A. Norreys, M. S. Wei, M. Zepf,and K. Krushelnick, “Temporally and spatially resolved measurements of multi-megagauss magnetic fields in high intensity laser-produced plasmas,” Phys. Plas. 15, 122701 (2008).  

96. M. G. Haines, M. S. Wei, F. N. Beg and R. B. Stephens, “The Hot Electron Temperature and Laser Light Absorption in Fast Ignition,” Phy. Rev. Lett. 102, 045008 (2009).

97. J.A. King, M.H. Key, K.U. Akli, R.R. Freeman, J. Green, S. P. Hatchett, D. Hey, P. Jamangi, J. Koch, K. L. Lancaster, T. Ma, A.J. MacKinnon, A. MacPhee, R. Mason, P.A. Norreys, P.K Patel, T. Phillips, R. Stephens, W. Theobald, R.P.J. Town, L. Van Woerkom, B. Zhang, and F. N. Beg, “Studies of the transport of high intensity laser-generated hot electrons in cone coupled wire targets”, Phys. Plas. 16, 020701 (2009).

98. R. E. Madden, S. C. Bott, G. Collins and F. N. Beg, “Investigation of Carbon X-pinches as a Source for Point Projection Radiography,’ IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 37, 433 (2009).

99. K. L. Lancaster, M. Sherlock, J. S. Green, C. D. Gregory, P. Hakel, K. U. Akli, F. N. Beg, S. N. Chen, R. R. Freeman, H. Habara, R. Heathcote, D. Hey, K. Highbarger, M. H. Key, R. Kodama,K. Krushelnick, H. Nakamura, M. Nakatsutsumi, J. Pasley, R. S. Stephens, M. Storm, M. Tampo, W. Theobald, L. Van Woerkom, R. L. Weber, M. Wei, N. C. Woolsey, T. Yabuuchi, P. A. Norreys, “Effect of cone-guiding on energy transport in intense laser-plasma interactions,” Phys. Rev. E 80, 045401 (2009).

100. D. T. Offerman, R.R. Freeman, L. Van Woerkom, M. Foord, D. Hey, M.H. Key, A.J. MacKinnon, A. MacPhee, P.K Patel, Y.Ping, J. J. Sanchez, N. Shen, T. Bartal, F.N. Beg and C. D. Chen,” Observations of Proton Beam Enhancement Due to Erbium Hydride on Gold Foil Targets”, Phys. Plas. 16, 093113 (2009).

101. P. A. Norreys, F. N. Beg, Y. Sentoku, L. O. Silva and R. A. Trines, “Intense Laser Plasma Interactions – New Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics,’ Physics of Plasmas 16, 041002(2009).

102. S. N. Chen, P. K. Patel, H.-K. Chung, A. J. Kemp, S. Le Pape, B. R. Maddox, S. C. Wilks, R. B.

Stephens, and F. N. Beg, “X-ray spectroscopy of buried layer foils irradiated at laser intensities in

excess of 1020 W/cm2,” Phys. Plas. 16, 062701 (2009).

103 Sebastien Le Pape, Ying Yin Tsui, Andrew Macphee, Daniel Hey, Pravesh Patel, Andrew Mackinnon, Mike Key, Mingsheng Wei, Tammy Ma, Farhat N. Beg, Rich Stephens, Kramer Akli, Tony Link, Linn Van-Woerkom, and Rick R. Freeman, “Characterization of the preformed plasma for high-intensity-laser plasma interaction,” Optics Letters 34, 2997 (2009).

104. Tsuyoshi Tanimoto, H. Habara, R. Kodama, M. Nakatsutsumi, Kazuo A. Tanaka, K. L. Lancaster, J. S. Green, R. H. H. Scott, M. Sherlock, Peter A. Norreys, R. G. Evans, M. G. Haines, S. Kar, M. Zepf, J. King, T. Ma, M. S. Wei, T. Yabuuchi, F. N. Beg, M. H. Key, P. Nilson, R. B. Stephens, H. Azechi, K. Nagai, T. Norimatsu, K. Takeda, J. Valente, and J. R. Davies, “Measurements of fast electron scaling generated by petawatt laser systems,” Phys. Plas. 16, 062703 (2009).

105. S. C. Bott, D. M. Haas, Y. Eshaq, U. Ueda, F. N. Beg, D. A. Hammer, B. Kusse, J. Greenly, T. A.

Shelkovenko, S. A. Pikuz, I. C. Blesener, R. D. McBride, J. D. Douglass, K. Bell, P. Knapp, J. P.

Chittenden, S. V. Lebedev, S. N. Bland, G. N. Hall, F. A. Suzuki-Vidal, A. Marocchino, A. Harvey-Thomson, J. B. A. Palmer, A. Esaulov, D. J. Ampleford, M. G. Haines, “Effect of currentrise-time on the formation of the precursor column in cylindrical wire array z-pinches at 1

MA”Phys Plas. 16, 072701 (2009).

106. C. R.D. Brown, S.F. James, F.N. Beg, C. Constantin, R.L. Daskalova, R. Edwards, R.R. Freeman, D.P. Higginson, J.W. Morton, C. Niemann, D. Riley, B.R. Thomas, L. Van Woerkom, D.J. Hoarty, S.J. Rose, G. Gregori, “Radiation and hot electron temperature measurements of short-pulse laser driven hohlraums,” High Energy Density Physics 5, 212-215 (2009).

107. P.A. Norreys, R.H.H. Scott, K.L. Lancaster, J.S. Green, A.P.L. Robinson, M. Sherlock, R.G. Evans, M.G. Haines, S. Kar, M. Zepf, M.H. Key, J. King, T. Ma, T. Yabuuchi, M.S.Wei, F.N. Beg, P. Nilson, W. Theobald, R.B. Stephens, J. Valente, J.R. Davies, K. Takeda, H. Azechi, M. Nakatsutsumi, T. Tanimoto, R. Kodama and K.A. Tanaka, “Recent fast electron energy transportexperiments relevant to fast ignition inertial fusion,” Nucl. Fusion 49 104023 (2009).

108. T. Ma, M. H. Key, R. J. Mason, K. U. Akli, R. L. Daskalova, R. R. Freeman, J. S. Green, K. Highbarger, P. A. Jaanimagi, J. A. King, K. L. Lancaster, S. P. Hatchett, A. J. Mackinnon, A. G. MacPhee, P. A. Norreys, P. K. Patel, R. B. Stephens, W. Theobald, L. D. Van Woerkom, M. S. Wei, S. C. Wilks, and F. N. Beg, “Transport of energy by ultraintense laser-generated electrons in nail-wire targets,” Phys. Plas. 16, 112702 (2009).

109. F Perez, M Koenig, D Batani, S D Baton, F N Beg, C Benedetti, E Brambrink, S Chawla, F Dorchies, C Fourment, M Galimberti, L A Gizzi, R Heathcote, D P Higginson, S Hulin, R Jafer, P Koester, L Labate, K Lancaster, A J MacKinnon, A G McPhee, W Nazarov, P Nicolai, J Pasley, A Ravasio, M Richetta, J J Santos, A Sgattoni, C Spindloe, B Vauzour and L Volpe, “Fast-electron transport in cylindrically laser-compressed matter,” Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51, 124035 (2009).

110. C. D. Chen, P. K. Patel, D. S. Hey, A. J. Mackinnon, M. H. Key, K. U. Akli, T. Bartal, F. N. Beg, S. Chawla, H. Chen, R. R. Freeman, D. P. Higginson, A. Link, T. Y. Ma, A. G. MacPhee, R. B. Stephens, L. D. Van Woerkom, B. Westover, and M. Porkolab, “Bremsstrahlung and K fluorescence measurements for inferring conversion efficiencies into fast ignition relevant hot electrons,” Phys. Plas. 16, 082705 (2009).

111. D. S. Hey, M. E. Foord, M. H. Key, S. L. LePape, A. J. Mackinnon, P. K. Patel, Y. Ping, K. U. Akli, R. B. Stephens, T. Bartal, F. N. Beg, R. Fedosejevs, H. Friesen, H. F. Tiedje, and Y. Y. Tsui, “Laser-accelerated proton conversion efficiency thickness scaling,” Phys. Plas. 16, 123108 (2009).

112. A. G. MacPhee, L. Divol, A. J. Kemp, K. U. Akli, F. N. Beg, C. D. Chen, H. Chen, D. S. Hey, R. J. Fedosejevs, R. R. Freeman, M. Henesian, M. H. Key, S. Le Pape, A. Link, T. Ma, A. J. Mackinnon, V. M. Ovchinnikov. P. K. Patel, T.W. Phillips, R. B. Stephens, M. Tabak, R. Town, Y.Y. Tsui, L. D. Van Woerkom, M. S. Wei, and S. C. Wilks, “Limitation on Prepulse Level for Cone-Guided Fast-Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion,” Physical Review Letters 104, 055002 (2010).

113. S. C. Bott, D. M. Haas, Y. Eshaq, Utako Ueda, Robert E. Madden, Gilbert W. Collins IV, Farhat N. Beg, “Ablation Studies of Low-Number Wire Arrays at 200 kA Using A Linear Transformer Driver,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 38, 567 (2010).

114. T. Yabuuchi, B. S. Paradkar, M. S. Wei, J. A. King, F. N. Beg, R. B. Stephens, N. Nakanii, M. Hatakeyama, H. Habara, K. Mima, and K. A. Tanaka, J. T. Larsen, “Transport Study of Intense-Laser-Produced Fast Electrons in Solid Targets with a Preplasma Created by a Long Pulse Laser,” Phys. Plas. 17, 060704 (2010).

115. B. Westover, A. MacPhee, C. Chen, D. Hey, T. Ma, B. Maddox, H.-S. Park, B. Remington and F. N. Beg, “Study of Silver K-aplha and Bremsstrhalung Relation from Short-Pulse-Laser-Matter Interactions with Applications for X-ray Radiography,” Phys. Plas. 17, 082703 (2010).

116. K. U. Akli, P. K. Patel, R. Van Maren, R. B. Stephens, M. H. Key, D. P. Higginson, B. Westover, C. D. Chen, A. J. Mackinnon, T. Bartal, F. N. Beg, S. Chawla, R. Fedosejevs, R. R. Freeman, D. S. Hey, G. E. Kemp, S. LePape, A. Link, T. Ma, A. G. MacPhee, H. S. McLean, Y. Ping, Y. Y. Tsui, L. D. Van Woerkom, M. S. Wei, T. Yabuuchi, S.Yuspeh, ”A Dual Channel X-ray Spectrometer for Fast Ignition Research,” Journal of Instrumentation 5, P07008 (2010).

117. B.S.Paradkar, M.S.Wei1, T.Yabuuchi, R.B.Stephens, J.T. Larsen and F.N.Beg,“Numerical Modeling of Fast Electrons Transport in Short Pulse Laser-Solid Interactions with Long Scale-Length Pre-formed Plasma,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52, 125003 (2010).

118. P A Norreys, J S Green, K L Lancaster, A P L Robinson, R H H Scott, F Perez, H-P Schlenvoight, S Baton, S Hulin, B Vauzour, J J Santos, D J Adams, K Markey, B Ramakrishna, M Zepf, M N Quinn, X H Yuan, P McKenna, J Schreiber, J R Davies, D P Higginson, F N Beg, C Chen, T Ma and P Patel, “New Developments in Energy Transfer and Transport Studies in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52, 124046 (2010).

119. F. Perez, S. D. Baton, M. Koenig, C. D. Chen, D. Hey, M. H. Key, S. Le Pape, T. Ma, H. S. McLean, A. G. MacPhee, P. K. Patel, Y. Ping, F. N. Beg, D. P. Higginson, C. W. Murphy, H. Sawada, B. Westover, T. Yabuuchi, K. U. Akli, E. Giraldez, M. Hoppe, Jr., C. Shearer, R. B. Stephens, L. Gremillet, E. Lefebvre, R. R. Freeman, G. E. Kemp, A. G. Krygier, L. D. Van Woerkom, R. Fedosejevs, R. H. Friesen, Y. Y. Tsui, and D. Turnbull,

“Single-Shot Divergence Measurements of a Laser-Generated Relativistic Electron Beam,” Phys. Plas. 17, 113106 (2010).

120. D. P. Higginson, J. M. McNaney, D. C. Swift, T. Bartal, D. S. Hey, R. Kodama, S. Le Pape, A. Mackinnon, D. Mariscal, H. Nakamura, N. Nakanii, K. A. Tanaka, and F. N. Beg, “Laser Generated Neutron Source for Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy,” Phys. Plas. 17, 100701 (2010).

121. B.S. Paradkar, M.S. Wei, T. Yabuuchi, R.B. Stephens, S.I. Krasheninnikov and F.N. Beg, “Numerical Modeling of Fast Electrons Transport in Short Pulse Laser-Solid Interactions with Long Scale-Length Pre-formed Plasma,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52, 125003 (2010).

122. P. A. Norreys, J. S. Green, K. L. Lancaster, A. P. L. Robinson, R. H. H. Scott, F. Perez, H.-P. Schlenvoight, S. Baton, S. Hulin, B. Vauzour, J. J. Santos, D. J. Adams, K. Markey, B. Ramakrishna, M. Zepf, M. N. Quinn, X. H. Yuan, P. McKenna, J. Schreiber, J. R. Davies, D. P. Higginson, F. N. Beg, C. Chen, T. Ma and P Patel, “New Developments in Energy Transfer and Transport Studies in Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 52, 124046 (2010).

123. L. Volpe, D. Batani, B. Vauzour, Ph. Nicolai, J. J. Santos,C. Regan, A. Morace, F. Dorchies, C. Fourment, S. Hulin, M. Koenig, F. Perez, S. Baton, K. Lancaster, M. Galimberti, R. Heathcote, M. Tolley, Ch. Spindloe, P. Koester, L. Labate, L. A. Gizzi, C. Benedetti, A. Sgattoni, M. Richetta, J. Pasley, F. Beg, S. Chawla, D. P. Higginson, and A. G. MacPhee, “Proton Radiography of Laser-Driven Imploding Target in Cylindrical Geometry,” Phys. Plas. 18, 012704 (2011).

124. L. Volpe, R. Jafer, B. Vauzour, Ph. Nicolai, J.J. Santos, F. Dorchies, C. Fourment, S. Hulin, C. Regan, F. Perez, S. Baton, K. Lancaster, M. Galimberti, R. Heathcote, M.Tolley, Ch.Spindloe, W. Nazarov, P. Koester, L. Labate, L.A. Gizzi, C. Benedetti, A. Sgattoni, M. Richetta, J. Pasley, F. Beg, S. Chawla, D.P. Higginson, A. G. MacPhee and D. Batani, “Proton Radiography of Cylindrical Laser-Driven Implosions,” Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 53, 032003 (2011).

125. B. Vauzour, F. Perez, L. Volpe, K. Lancaster, Ph. Nicola, M. Koenig, D. Batani, S.D. Baton, F.N. Beg, C. Benedetti, E. Brambrink, S. Chawla, F. Dorchies, C. Fourment, M. Galimberti, L.A. Gizzi, R. Heathcote, D.P. Higginson, S. Hulin, R. Jafer, P. Kaoster, L. Labate, A.J. MacKinnon, A.G. MacPhee, W. Nazarov, J. Pasley, C. Regan, X. Ribeyre, M. Richetta, G. Schurtz, A. Sgattoni, and J.J. Santos, “Laser-Driven Cylindrical Compression of Targets for Fast Electron Transport Study in Warm Dense Plasmas,” Phys. Plas. 18, 043108 (2011).

126. D. M. Haas, S. C. Bott, J. Kim, D. A. Mariscal, R. E. Madden, Y. Eshaq, U. Ueda, G. Collins IV, K. Gunasekera, F. N. Beg, J. P. Chittenden, N. Niasse and C. A. Jennings,” Supersonic Jet Formation and Propopagation in X-Pinches,” Astrophys. Space Sci. DOI 10.1007/s10509-011-0599-8 (2011).

127. B.S. Paradkar, M.S. Wei, T. Yabuuchi, R.B. Stephens, S.I. Krasheninnikov and F.N. Beg, “Numerical Modeling of Fast Electron Generation in the Presence of Preformed Plasma in Laser-Matter Interaction at Relativistic Intensities,” Phys. Rev. 83, 046401 (2011).

128. W. Theobald, A. A. Solodov, C. Stoeckl, K. S. Anderson, R. Betti, T. R. Boehly, R. S. Craxton, J. A. Delettrez, C. Dorrer, J. A. Frenje, V. Yu. Glebov, H. Habara, K. A. Tanaka, J. P. Knauer, R. Lauck, F. J. Marshall, K. L. Marshall, D. D. Meyerhofer, P. M. Nilson, P. K. Patel, H. Chen, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, N. Sinenian, T. Ma, F. N. Beg, E. Giraldez, and R. B. Stephens, “Initial Cone-in-Shell Fast-Ignition Experiments on OMEGA,” Phys. Plasmas 18, 056305 (2011).

129. S. C. Bott, D. M. Haas, R. E. Madden, U. Ueda, Y. Eshaq, G. Collins IV, K. Gunasekera, D. Mariscal, J. Peebles, F. N. Beg, M. Mazarakis, K. Struve, and R. Sharpe, “250 kA Compact Linear Transformer Driver for Wire Array Z-Pinch Loads,” Physical Review 14 (special issue on accelerators and beams), 050401 (2011).

130. B. Westover, C. D. Chen, P. K. Patel, M. H. Key, H. McLean, R. Stephens, and F. N. Beg, “Fast Electron Temperature and Conversion Efficiency Measurements in Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets Using a Bremsstrahlung X-Ray Detector,” Phys. Plas. 18, 063101 (2011).

131. J. L. Peebles, S. C. Bott, K. Gunasekera, J. Kim, L. Harpster, B. Evans, D. Gomez, O. Paran, C. Peterson, F. N. Beg, “Examination of Bow-Shock Formation in Supersonic, Radiatively Cooled Plasma Flows," , IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39, 2422 – 2423 (2011).

132. F. Perez, A. Debayle, J. Honrubia, M. Koenig, D. Batani, S. D. Baton, F. N. Beg, C. Benedetti, E. Brambrink, S. Chawla, F. Dorchies, C. Fourment, M. Galimberti, L. A. Gizzi, L. Gremillet, R. Heathcote, D. P. Higginson, S. Hulin, R. Jafer, P. Koester, L. Labate, K. L. Lancaster, A. J. MacKinnon, A. G. MacPhee, W. Nazarov, P. Nicolai, J. Pasley, R. Ramis, M. Richetta, J. J. Santos, A. Sgattoni, C. Spindloe, B. Vauzour, T. Vinci, and L. Volp, "Magnetically Guided Fast Electrons in Cylindrically Compressed Matter," Physical Review Letters 107, 065004 (2011).

133. H. Sawada, W. Theobald, C. Stoeckl, G. Fiksel, P. K. Patel, C. D. Chen, T. Yabuuchi, F. N. Beg, R. B. Stephens, K. U. Akli, H. S. McLean and M. H. Key, "Monochromatic Imaging of 8.0 keV Cu K-alpha Emission Induced by Energetic Electrons Generated at OMEGA EP," IEEE Transactions on Plasma 39, 2816 – 2817 (2011).

134. T. Yabuuchi, H. Sawada, T. Bartal, D. Batani, L. A. Gizzi, M. H. Key, A. J. Mackinnon, H. S. McLean, P. A. Norreys, P. K. Patel, R. B. Stephens, C. Spindloe, W. Theobald, M. S. Wei, and F. N. Beg, "Proton Radiography of Intense-Laser-Irradiated Wire-Attached Cone Targets, " IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 39, 2822 – 2823 (2011).

135. T. Bartal, K. Flippo, S. A. Gaillard, D. T. Offermann, M. E. Foord, C. Bellei, P. K. Patel, M. H. Key, R. B. Stephens, H. S. McLean, L.C. Jarrott and F. N. Beg, "Proton Focusing Characteristics Relevant to Fast Ignition," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 39, 2818 – 2819 (2011).

136. B. Westover, C. D. Chen, P. K. Patel, M. H. Key, H. McLean, R. Stephens, and F. N. Beg, "Fast Electron Temperature and Conversion Efficiency Measurements in Laser-Irradiated Foil Targets Using a Bremsstrahlung X-Ray Detector," Phys. Plas. 18, 063101 (2011).

137. Teresa Bartal, Mark E. Foord, Claudio Bellei, Michael H. Key, Kirk A. Flippo, Sandrine A. Gaillard, Dustin T. Offermann, Pravesh K. Patel, Leonard C. Jarrott, Drew P. Higginson, Markus Roth, Anke Otten, Dominik Kraus, Richard B. Stephens, Harry S. McLean, Emilio M. Giraldez, Mingsheng S.Wei, Donald C. Gautier and Farhat N. Beg, "Focusing of short-pulse high-intensity laser-accelerated proton beams," Nature Physics 8, 139-142 (2012).

138. C. Bellei, M. E. Foord, T. Bartal, M. H. Key, H. S. McLean, P. K. Patel, R. B. Stephens, and F. N. Beg, “Electron and ion dynamics during the expansion of a laser-heated plasma under

vacuum,” Phys. Plasmas 19, 033109 (2012).

139. T. Ma, H. Sawada, P. K. Patel, C. D. Chen, L. Divol, D. P. Higginson, A. J. Kemp, M. H. Key, D. J. Larson, S. Le Pape, A. Link, A. G. MacPhee, H. S. McLean, Y. Ping, R. B. Stephens, S. C. Wilks, and F. N. Beg, “Hot Electron Temperature and Coupling Efficiency Scaling with Prepulse for Cone-Guided Fast Ignition,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 115004 (2012).

140. M. E. Foord, T. Bartal, C. Bellei, M. Key, K. Flippo, R. B. Stephens, P. K. Patel, H. S. McLean, L. C. Jarrott, M. S. Wei, and F. N. Beg, “Proton trajectories and electric fields in a laser- accelerated focused proton beam,” Phys. Plasmas 19, 056702 (2012). 141. G W Collins IV, D Marsical, D M Haas, R E Madden, K Gunasekara, J Kim, M L L Abarr, S C Bott, J P Chittenden and F N Beg, “Effect of the global to local magnetic field ratio on the ablation modulations on X-pinches driven by 80 kA peak current”, New Journal of Physics 14, 043021 (2012). 142. M. J.-E. Manuel, N. Sinenian, F. H. Séguin, C. K. Li, J. A. Frenje, H. G. Rinderknecht, D. T. Casey, A. B. Zylstra, R. D. Petrasso, and F. N. Beg, “Mapping return currents in laser-generated Z-pinch plasmas using proton deflectometry,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 203505 (2012).

143. C.A. J. Palmer, J. Schreiber, S. R. Nagel, N. P. Dover, C. Bellei, F. N. Beg, S. Bott, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, S. M. Mangles, K. L. Lancaster, A. Rehman, A. P. L. Robinson, C. Spindloe, J. Szerypo, M. Tatarakis, M. Yeung and M. Zepf, “Rayleigh-Taylor Instability of an Ultrathin Foil Accelerated by the Radiation Pressure of an Intense Laser”, Physical Review Letters 108, 225002 (2012).

144. B. S. Paradkar, S. I. Krasheninnikov, and F. N. Beg, “Mechanism of heating of pre-formed plasma electrons in relativistic laser-matter interaction,” Phys. Plasmas 19, 060703 (2012).

145. S. C. Bott, G. Collins, IV, K. Gunasekera, D. Mariscal, F. N. Beg, D. M. Haas, F. Veloso, I. C. Blesener, A. D. Cahill, C. L. Hoyt, B. R. Kusse, and D. A. Hammer, “A collinear self-emission and laser-backlighting imaging diagnostic,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 083507 (2012).

146. G. M. Petrov, D. P. Higginson, J. Davis, Tz. B. Petrova, J. M. McNaney, C. McGuffey, B. Qiao, and F. N. Beg, “Generation of high-energy (>15 MeV) neutrons using short pulse high intensity lasers,” Phys. Plasmas 19, 093106 (2012).

147. T. Yabuuchi, H. Sawada, S. P. Regan, K. Anderson, M. S. Wei, R. Betti, J. Hund, M. H. Key, A. J. Mackinnon, H. S. McLean, R. R. Paguio, P. K. Patel, K. M. Saito, R. B. Stephens, S. C. Wilks, and F. N. Beg, “Temporally resolved characterization of shock-heated

foam target with Al absorption spectroscopy for fast electron transport study,” Phys. Plasmas 19, 092705 (2012).

148. H. Sawada, T. Yabuuchi, S. P. Regan, K. Anderson, M. S. Wei, R. Betti, J. Hund, M. H. Key,

A. J. Mackinnon, H. S. McLean, R. R. Paguio, P. K. Patel, K. M. Saito, R. B. Stephens, S. C. Wilks, F. N. Beg, “Diagnosing laser-driven, shock-heated foam target with Al absorption

spectroscopy,” High Energy Density Physics 8 ,180-183 (2012).

149. H. Sawada, D. P. Higginson, A. Link, T. Ma, S. C. Wilks, H. S. McLean, F. Perez, P. K. Patel and F. N. Beg, “Characterizing the energy distribution of laser-generated relativistic electrons in cone-wire targets,” Physics of Plasmas 19, 103108 (2012).

150. Y. Ping, A. J. Kemp, L. Divol, M. H. Key, P. K. Patel, K. U. Akli, F. N. Beg, S. Chawla, C. D. Chen, R. R. Freeman, D. Hey, D. P. Higginson, L. C. Jarrott, G. E. Kemp, A. Link, H. S.

McLean, H. Sawada, R. B. Stephens, D. Turnbull, B. Westover, and S. C. Wilks,“Dynamics of Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interaction on Solid Targets,” Phys. Rev. Lett.

109, 145006 (2012).

151. B. S. Paradkar, T. Yabuuchi, H. Sawada, D. P. Higginson, A. Link, M. S. Wei, R. B. Stephens, S. I. Krasheninnikov, and F. N. Beg, “Emission of energetic protons from relativistic intensity laser interaction with a cone-wire target,” Physical Review E 86, 056405 (2012).

152. B. Vauzour, J. J. Santos, A. Debayle, S. Hulin, H.-P. Schlenvoigt, X. Vaisseau, D. Batani, S. D. Baton, J. J. Honrubia, Ph. Nicolaï, F. N. Beg, R. Benocci, S. Chawla, M. Coury, F. Dorchies, C. Fourment, E. d’Humières, L. C. Jarrot, P. McKenna, Y. J. Rhee, V. T. Tikhonchuk, L. Volpe, and V. Yahia, “Relativistic High-Current Electron-Beam Stopping-Power Characterization in Solids and Plasmas: Collisional Versus Resistive Effects,” Physical Review Letters 109, 255002 (2012).

153. S. C. Bott, D. Mariscal, K. Gunasekera, J. Peebles, F. N. Beg, D. A. Hammer, B. R. Kusse, J. B. Greenly, T. A. Shelkovenko, S. A. Pikuz, I. C. Blesener, R. D. McBride, J. D. Douglass, K. S. Blesener, P. F. Knapp, “Experimental Analysis of the Acceleration Region in Tungsten Wire Arrays,” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 40, 3324 – 3328 (2012).

154. J. L. Giuliani, F. N. Beg, R. M. Gilgenbach, V. L. Kantsyrev, B. R. Kusse, V. V. Ivanov, R. Presura, “Plasma Pinch Research on University Pulsed-Power Generators in the United States” IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 40, 3246 – 3264 (2012).

155. S. Chawla, M. S. Wei, R. Mishra, K.U Akli, C. D. Chen, H. S. McLean, A. Morace, P. K. Patel, H. Sawada, Y. Sentoku, R. B. Stephens, and F.N. Beg, “Effect of target material on fast electron transport and resistive collimation,” Physical Review Letters 110, 025001 (2013).

156. T. Yabuuchi, R. Mishra, C. McGuffey, B. Qiao, M. S. Wei, H. Sawada, Y. Sentoku, T. Ma, D. P. Higginson, K. U. Akli, D. Batani, H. Chen, L. A. Gizzi, M. H. Key, A. J. Mackinnon, H. S. McLean, P. A. Norreys, P. K. Patel, R. B. Stephens, Y. Ping, W. Theobald, C. Stoeckl, and F. N. Beg, “Impact of extended preplasma on energy coupling in kilojoule energy relativistic laser interaction with cone wire targets relevant to Fast Ignition,” New Journal of Physics 15, 015020 (2013).

157. B. Qiao, M. E. Foord, M. S. Wei, R. B. Stephens, M. H. Key, H. McLean, P. K. Patel, and F. N. Beg "Dynamics of high-energy proton beam acceleration and focusing from hemisphere-cone targets by high-intensity lasers" , Physical Review E 87, 013108 (2013).

158. G. W. Collins IV, M. P. Valdivia, T. Zick, R. E. Madden, M. G. Haines, and F. N. Beg, "Study of X-pinch dynamics using a low current (25 kA) and slower current (400 ns) pulse" , Physics of Plasmas 20, 042704 (2013).

159. C. D. Chen, A. J. Kemp, F. Perez, A. Link, F. N. Beg, S. Chawla, M. H. Key, H. McLean, A. Morace, Y. Ping, A. Sorokovikova, R. B. Stephens, M. Streeter, B. Westover, and P. K.

Patel,"Comparisons of angularly and spectrally resolved Bremsstrahlung measurements to two- dimensional multi-stage simulations of short-pulse laser-plasma interactions" Physics of Plasmas 20, 052703 (2013).

160. Joao Jorge Santos, D. Batani, S. D. Baton, F. N. Beg, T. Cecceto, A. Debayle, F. Dorchies, J.-L. Feugeas, C. Fourment, L. Gremillett, J. J. Honrubia, S. Hulin, A. Morace, P. Nicolai, F. Perez, H. Sawada, H.-P. Schlenvoit, V. T. Tikhonchick, X. Vaiseau, B. Vauzour and M. Wei, "Supra-thermal electron beam stopping power and guiding in dense plasmas" , Journal of Plasma Physics, doi:10.1017/S0022377813000305 (2013).

161. R. Mishra, P. Leblanc, Y. Sentoku, M. S. Wei, and F. N. Beg, "Collisional particle-in-cell modeling for energy transport accompanied by atomic processes in dense plasmas" ,

Physics of Plasmas 20, 072704 (2013).

162. A. Morace, C. Bellei, T. Bartal, L. Willingale, J. Kim, A. Maksimchuk, K. Krushelnick, M. S. Wei, P. K. Patel, D. Batani, N. Piovella, R. B. Stephens, and F. N. Beg, "Improved laser-to- proton conversion efficiency in isolated reduced mass targets" , Applied Physics Letters 103, 054102 (2013).

163. P. A. Ni, S. M. Lund, C. McGuffey, N. Alexander, B. Aurand, J. J. Barnard, F. N. Beg, C. Bellei, F. M. Bieniosek, C. Brabetz, R. H. Cohen, J. Kim, P. Neumayer, M. Roth, and B. G. Logan, "Initial experimental evidence of self-collimation of target-normal-sheath-accelerated proton beam in a stack of conducting foils" , Physics of Plasmas 20, 083111 (2013).

164. G M Petrov, D P Higginson, J Davis, Tz B Petrova, C McGuffey, B Qiao and F N Beg "Generation of energetic (>15 MeV) neutron beams from proton- and deuteron-driven

nuclear reactions using short pulse lasers" , Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 55, 105009 (2013).

165. B. Westover, C. D. Chen, P. K. Patel, H. McLean, and F. N. Beg, “Characterization of the fast electrons distribution produced in a high intensity laser target interaction,” submitted to Physics of Plasmas.

166. L.C. Jarrott, A. J. Kemp, L. Divol, D. Mariscal, B. Westover, C. McGuffey, F.N. Beg, M. Suggit, C. Chen, D. Hey, B. Maddox, J. Hawreliak, H.-S. Park, B. Remington, M.S. Wei

and A. MacPhee, “Kα and bremsstrahlung x-ray radiation characteristics from short pulse laser driven targets as a function of laser prepulse energy,” submitted to Physics of Plasmas.

167. J. C. Valenzuela, G. W. Collins IV, D. Mariscal, E. S. Wyndham and F. N. Beg, “Study of instability formation and XUV emission in thin liners driven with a compact 250 kA, 150 ns linear transformer driver, “ submitted to physics of Plasmas.

168. D.P. Higginson, A. Link, H. Sawada, S.C. Wilks, T. Bartal, S. Chawla, C.D. Chen, K.A. Flippo, L.C. Jarrott, M.H. Key, H.S. McLean, P.K. Patel, F. Perez, M.S. Wei, and F.N. Beg, “High- Contrast Laser Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons in Solid Targets,” submitted to Physical Review Letters.

169. L Willingale, A G R Thomas, A Maksimchuk, A. Morace, T. Bartel, J. Kim, R. Stephens, M. S. Wei, F. N. Beg, K Krushelnick, “Investigation of relativistic intensity laser generated hot

electron dynamics via copper K_ imaging and proton acceleration,” submitted to Physical Review E.

170. T. Yabuuchi, J. May, C. McGuffey, H. Sawada, M. S. Wei, R. B. Stephens, C. Stoeckl, W. B. Mori, H. S. McLean, P. K. Patel, F. N. Beg, “Inhibition of fast electron transport in shock-heated plasma due to retarding electrostatic fields and self-generated magnetic fields,” submitted to Physical Review Letters.