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Simulated proton image of magnetic fields in a turbulent laser-plasma
Credit: Adapted from Bott et al., "Proton imaging of stochastic magnetic fields". J. Plasma Phys. 83 (2017)

Dr Archie Bott

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow

Research theme

  • Lasers and high energy density science
  • Plasma physics

Sub department

  • Atomic and Laser Physics

Research groups

  • Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS)
  • Theoretical astrophysics and plasma physics at RPC
archie.bott@physics.ox.ac.uk
  • About
  • Publications

I am a plasma physicist who specialises in the study of astrophysical and laser-produced plasmas. I completed my DPhil in Atomic and Laser Physics at Oxford in 2019, before moving to the USA to work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. In Autumn 2022, I moved back to Oxford to start a Future Leaders Fellowship. 

My research interests include magnetised plasma dynamics, plasma turbulence, plasma dynamo processes, and laboratory astrophysics. The goal of my Future Leaders Fellowship programme is to characterise systematically the anomalous material properties of magnetised, weakly collisional plasmas. This extreme type of plasma, which is common in astrophysical environments and laser-plasma experiments, is quite unlike the plasma and gas usually found in terrestrial contexts because of its complicated microphysics, and so classical plasma models are typically inadequate. Constructing new models should help address several long-standing astrophysical puzzles, refine interpretations of astronomical observations, and aid efforts to realise laser-fusion power.

Research interests

Plasma physics, laser physics, astrophysics

Selected publications

Adaptive Critical Balance and Firehose Instability in an Expanding, Turbulent, Collisionless Plasma

The Astrophysical Journal Letters American Astronomical Society 922:2 (2021) L35-L35
AFA Bott, L Arzamasskiy, MW Kunz, E Quataert, J Squire

Time-resolved turbulent dynamo in a laser plasma

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences 118:11 (2021) e2015729118
Afa Bott, P Tzeferacos, L Chen, Charlotte Palmer, A Rigby, Anthony Bell, R Bingham, A Birkel, C Graziani, Dh Froula, J Katz, M Koenig, Mw Kunz, Ck Li, J Meinecke, Francesco Miniati, R Petrasso, H-S Park, Ba Remington, B Reville, Js Ross, D Ryu, D Ryutov, F Séguin, Tg White, AA Schekochihin, Dq Lamb, G Gregori

Inefficient magnetic-field amplification in supersonic laser-plasma turbulence

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society 127 (2021) 175002
Afa Bott, L Chen, G Boutoux, T Caillaud, A Duval, M Koenig, B Khiar, I Lantuéjoul, L Le-Deroff, B Reville, R Rosch, D Ryu, C Spindloe, B Vauzour, B Villette, Aa Schekochihin, Dq Lamb, P Tzeferacos, G Gregori, A Casner

Proton imaging of stochastic magnetic fields

Journal of Plasma Physics Cambridge University Press 83:6 (2017) 905830614
Archie FA Bott, C Graziani, Petros Tzeferacos, P White, DQ Lamb, Gianluca Gregori, Alexander Schekochihin
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