Authors

• Eduard Atonga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9993-0475)
• D. McGonegle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5329-1081)
• J. P. Kennedy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4622-3288)
• Rusko Ruskov
• C. D. Baird (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9973-7173)
• J. J. Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0539-7647)
• M. Yeung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8394-6496)
• C. R. J. Fitzpatrick (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9063-3779)
• P. A. Norreys (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5539-9464)
• B. Dromey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8421-3801)
• H. Martin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4214-2683)
• Robin Timmis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2241-9633)
• S. Astbury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-9812)
• H. M. Huddleston (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5145-3185)
• Matt Zepf
• Abigail James
• Dan Symes
• Elliott Denis
• Jeremy Rebenstock
• Oliver Finlay
• Nicolas Bourgeois
• John Neely
• Karl Krushelnick
• Joshua Redfern
• Steve Hawkes
• Zixin Zhang
• Paramel Pattathil Rajeev
• Edward Gumbrell

Institutions

• Queen's University Belfast (GB)
• Helmholtz Institute Jena (DE)
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (GB)
• GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research (DE)
• University of Michigan (US)
• AWE Nuclear Security Technologies (GB)
• University of Oxford (GB)
• Oxford Lasers (United Kingdom) (GB)
• Optical Sciences (United States) (US)
• Science Oxford (GB)
• Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)

Publication Details

Journal

Nature

Published

2026-04-22

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10400-2

Primary Topic

Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

Type

article

Field-Weighted Citation Impact

0.00

Funders

• National Science Foundation
• Queen's University Belfast
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Queen's University
• Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council