Chris Brady
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Name: Christopher Brady Position: Research Fellow Funding: EPSRC S&I Research Interests: Numerical simulations of laser plasma interactions with relevance to ion acceleration and inertial confinement fusion. More recently, I have been working on simulating the new physics of laser solid interactions at ultra high-intensities (>1022 W/cm2) when synchrotron radiation and pair production are included using the QED-PIC code EPOCH. This new regime of plasma physics sits between conventional laser-plasma physics that everyone is familiar with and the ultra high energy regime where you're simply doing particle physics with lasers. The new processes change to some degree almost every plasma physics process, requiring reanalysis of otherwise well understood processes. Most of my research is done using large scale simulation of kinetic plasmas using the PIC code EPOCH. The core EPOCH code was developed by Dr Chris Brady (me) and Dr. Keith Bennett (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/cfsa/people/bennett) based on the earlier code PSC. The QED/semi-classical photon emission and pair production routines were developed by Dr Christopher Ridgers (http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/contacts/people/ridgers) and Dr Roland Duclous and incorporated into EPOCH by Dr Ridgers. EPOCH is available from http://ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk/gf/project/epoch/ and is free for UK academic use (signup required). A commercial version for non-UK and non-academic use is shortly to be launched. |
