Farhat Beg

13.6k citations

344 papers · 11.2k · 2 hit papers · h-index 53

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Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 2%
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Magnetic confinement fusion research
Geophysics top 0.5%
- High-pressure geophysics and materials

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 317
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics 312
- Magnetic confinement fusion research 26
Mechanics of Materials 207
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma 206

Co-authors: Peter Norreys (37 shared papers)M. Tatarakis (32 shared papers)A. E. Dangor (29 shared papers)Karl M. Krushelnick (40 shared papers)Ε. L. Clark (31 shared papers)A. E. Dangor (25 shared papers)Ian Watts (10 shared papers)M. G. Haines (16 shared papers)
Journals: Physics of Plasmas (93 papers)Physical Review Letters (30 papers)Review of Scientific Instruments (21 papers)IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (21 papers)Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (19 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom France

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Farhat Beg

328 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Farhat Beg's Hit Papers

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Measurements of Energetic Proton Transport through Magnetized Plasma from Intense Laser Interactions with Solids 2000 · 619 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2000 Physical Review Letters
1997 Physics of Plasmas

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1	Measurements of Energetic Proton Transport through Magnetized Plasma from Intense Laser Interactions with Solids Physical Review Letters ·Ε. L. Clark, Karl M. Krushelnick, Jonathan Davies, M. Zepf, M. Tatarakis, Farhat Beg, A. C. Machacek, Peter Norreys Hit paper breakdown →	2000	619
2	A study of picosecond laser–solid interactions up to 1019 W cm−2 Physics of Plasmas ·Farhat Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, Colin N. Danson, A. Peter Fews, Michael E. Glinsky, Bruce A. Hammel, Paul C. K. Lee Hit paper breakdown →	1997	574
3	Energetic Heavy-Ion and Proton Generation from Ultraintense Laser-Plasma Interactions with Solids Physical Review Letters ·Ε. L. Clark, Karl M. Krushelnick, M. Zepf, Farhat Beg, M. Tatarakis, A. C. Machacek, Marko Santala, Ian Watts	2000	451
4	Effect of discrete wires on the implosion dynamics of wire array Z pinches Physics of Plasmas ·Sergey Lebedev, Farhat Beg, Simon Bland, Jeremy Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, Kuan Hiang Kwek, Sergey Pikuz	2001	279
5	Characterization of a gamma-ray source based on a laser-plasma accelerator with applications to radiography Applied Physics Letters ·R.D. Edwards, Mark A. Sinclair, T.J. Goldsack, Karl M. Krushelnick, Farhat Beg, Ε. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, Zulfikar Najmudin	2002	233
6	Photonuclear Physics when a Multiterawatt Laser Pulse Interacts with Solid Targets Physical Review Letters ·Ken W. D. Ledingham, I. Spencer, Thomas McCanny, Ravi P. Singhal, Marko Santala, Ε. L. Clark, Ian Watts, Farhat Beg	2000	207
7	Observation of a highly directional γ-ray beam from ultrashort, ultraintense laser pulse interactions with solids Physics of Plasmas ·Peter Norreys, Marko Santala, Ε. L. Clark, M. Zepf, Ian Watts, Farhat Beg, Karl M. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis	1999	188
8	Plasma Ion Emission from High Intensity Picosecond Laser Pulse Interactions with Solid Targets Physical Review Letters ·A. Peter Fews, Peter Norreys, Farhat Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, Colin N. Danson, Paul C. K. Lee, Steven J. Rose	1994	187
9	Effect of the Plasma Density Scale Length on the Direction of Fast Electrons in Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions Physical Review Letters ·Marko Santala, M. Zepf, Ian Watts, Farhat Beg, Ε. L. Clark, M. Tatarakis, Karl M. Krushelnick, A. E. Dangor	2000	185
10	Effect of Laser Intensity on Fast-Electron-Beam Divergence in Solid-Density Plasmas Physical Review Letters ·J.S. Green, V. M. Ovchinńikov, Roger G. Evans, K. U. Akli, H. Azechi, Farhat Beg, C. Bellei, Richard R. Freeman	2008	182
11	Measuring huge magnetic fields Nature ·M. Tatarakis, Ian Watts, Farhat Beg, Ε. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, Peter Norreys, Ulrich Wagner	2002	180
12	Laboratory measurements of 0.7 GG magnetic fields generated during high-intensity laser interactions with dense plasmas Physical Review E ·Ulrich Wagner, M. Tatarakis, Farhat Beg, Ε. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, Roger G. Evans, M. G. Haines, Stuart P. D. Mangles	2004	169
13	Hot-Electron Temperature and Laser-Light Absorption in Fast Ignition Physical Review Letters ·M. G. Haines, M. S. Wei, Farhat Beg, Richard B. Stephens	2009	169
14	Proton Acceleration from High-Intensity Laser Interactions with Thin Foil Targets Physical Review Letters ·M. Zepf, Ε. L. Clark, Farhat Beg, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, Karl M. Krushelnick, Peter Norreys, M. Tatarakis	2003	159
15	Laser generation of proton beams for the production of short-lived positron emitting radioisotopes Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·I. Spencer, Kenneth W. D. Ledingham, Ravi P. Singhal, Thomas McCanny, Paul McKenna, Ε. L. Clark, Karl M. Krushelnick, M. Zepf	2001	151
16	Laboratory Astrophysics and Collimated Stellar Outflows: The Production of Radiatively Cooled Hypersonic Plasma Jets The Astrophysical Journal ·Sergey Lebedev, Jeremy Chittenden, Farhat Beg, Simon Bland, Andrea Ciardi, David Ampleford, Stephen J. Hughes, M. G. Haines	2002	150
17	Neutron production from picosecond laser irradiation of deuterated targets at intensities of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ·Peter Norreys, A. Peter Fews, Farhat Beg, A. R. Bell, A. E. Dangor, Paul C. K. Lee, Michael B. Nelson, Hannelore Schmidt	1998	149
18	Effect of Core-Corona Plasma Structure on Seeding of Instabilities in Wire Array Z Pinches Physical Review Letters ·S. V. Lebedev, Farhat Beg, Simon Bland, Jeremy Chittenden, A. E. Dangor, M. G. Haines, Sergey Pikuz, T.A. Shelkovenko	2000	136
19	Production of radioactive nuclides by energetic protons generated from intense laser-plasma interactions Applied Physics Letters ·Marko Santala, M. Zepf, Farhat Beg, Ε. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, Karl M. Krushelnick, M. Tatarakis, Ian Watts	2001	126
20	Plasma Formation on the Front and Rear of Plastic Targets due to High-Intensity Laser-Generated Fast Electrons Physical Review Letters ·M. Tatarakis, Jonathan Davies, Paul C. K. Lee, Peter Norreys, N. G. Kassapakis, Farhat Beg, A. R. Bell, M. G. Haines	1998	121

About Farhat Beg

Farhat Beg is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation, having authored 344 papers that have together received 11.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (312 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (206 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (119 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (80 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (45 papers), Nuclear Physics and Applications (29 papers), Magnetic confinement fusion research (26 papers) and Ion-surface interactions and analysis (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (10.0k citations), Geophysics (3.4k citations), Mechanics of Materials (6.1k citations), Radiation (1.7k citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.9k citations). Farhat Beg has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Peter Norreys, M. Tatarakis, A. E. Dangor, Karl M. Krushelnick, Ε. L. Clark, A. E. Dangor, Ian Watts, M. G. Haines, M. S. Wei and Marko Santala. Their work appears in journals such as Physics of Plasmas, Physical Review Letters, Review of Scientific Instruments, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science and Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion.

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