Dr Richard Shanks

Senior Research Fellow (Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre)

Suerc, Rankine Avenue, G75 0qf

Research interests

Publications

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Number of items: 43.

2024

Rudolph, E. M., Hedding, D. W., Hodgson, D. A., Fabel, D. , Gheorghiu, D. M. , Shanks, R. and Nel, W. (2024) A glacial chronology for sub-Antarctic Marion Island from MIS 2 and MIS 3. Quaternary Science Reviews, 325, 108485. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108485)

2023

Robertson, J., Roberts, G. P., Ganas, A., Meschis, M., Gheorghiu, D. M. and Shanks, R. M. (2023) Quaternary uplift of palaeoshorelines in southwestern Crete: the combined effect of extensional and compressional faulting. Quaternary Science Reviews, 316, 108240. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108240)

Freeman, S. P.H.T. , Dunbar, E. , Tripney, B. G. , Ascough, P. L. , Fabel, D. , Gulliver, P. , McIntyre, C. , Naysmith, P. , Shanks, R. P. and Xu, S. (2023) Another 6 years of radiocarbon secondary-standard AMS with two spectrometers. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 535, pp. 267-271. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2022.12.014)

2022

Mildon, Z. K. et al. (2022) Surface faulting earthquake clustering controlled by fault and shear-zone interactions. Nature Communications, 13, 7126. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34821-5) (PMID:36414645) (PMCID:PMC9681762)

2021

Goodall, H. J., Gregory, L. C., Wedmore, L. N. J., McCaffrey, K. J. W., Amey, R. M. J., Roberts, G. P., Shanks, R. P. , Phillips, R. J. and Hooper, A. (2021) Determining histories of slip on normal faults with bedrock scarps using cosmogenic nuclide exposure data. Tectonics, 40(3), e2020TC006. (doi: 10.1029/2020TC006457)

2020

Rudolph, E. M., Hedding, D. W., Fabel, D. , Hodgson, D. A., Gheorghiu, D. M. , Shanks, R. and Nel, W. (2020) Early glacial maximum and deglaciation at sub-Antarctic Marion Island from cosmogenic ³⁶Cl exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231, 106208. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106208)

2019

Mechernich, S. et al. (2019) Carbonate and silicate intercomparison materials for cosmogenic 36Cl measurements. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 455, pp. 250-259. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2019.01.024)

2018

Marrero, S. M., Hein, A. S., Naylor, M., Attal, M., Shanks, R. , Winter, K., Woodward, J., Dunning, S., Westoby, M. and Sugden, D. (2018) Controls on subaerial erosion rates in Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 501, pp. 56-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.08.018)

2017

Ballantyne, C. K., Fabel, D. , Gheorghiu, D. , Rodés, Á. , Shanks, R. and Xu, S. (2017) Late Quaternary glaciation in the Hebrides sector of the continental shelf: cosmogenic nuclide dating of glacial events on the St Kilda archipelago. Boreas, 46(4), pp. 605-621. (doi: 10.1111/bor.12242)

Cowie, P.A. et al. (2017) Orogen-scale uplift in the central Italian Apennines drives episodic behaviour of earthquake faults. Scientific Reports, 7, 44858. (doi: 10.1038/srep44858) (PMID:28322311) (PMCID:PMC5359594)

Bentley, M.J., Hein, A.S., Sugden, D.E., Whitehouse, P.L., Shanks, R. , Xu, S. and Freeman, S.P.H.T. (2017) Deglacial history of the Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica from glacial geomorphology and cosmogenic nuclide surface exposure dating. Quaternary Science Reviews, 158, pp. 58-76. (doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.09.028)

2016

Hein, A. S., Marrero, S. M., Woodward, J., Dunning, S. A., Winter, K., Westoby, M. J., Freeman, S. P. H. T. , Shanks, R. P. and Sugden, D. E. (2016) Mid-Holocene pulse of thinning in the Weddell Sea sector of the West Antarctic ice sheet. Nature Communications, 7, 12511. (doi: 10.1038/ncomms12511) (PMID:27545202) (PMCID:PMC4996935)

2015

Jaroszynski, D.A. et al. (2015) Coherent radiation sources based on laser driven plasma waves. 40th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz 2015), Hong Kong, China, 23-28 Aug 2015. pp. 1-4. ISBN 9781479982721

Freeman, S. P.H.T. , Shanks, R. P. , Donzel, X. and Gaubert, G. (2015) Radiocarbon positive-ion mass spectrometry. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, pp. 229-232. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.04.034)

Shanks, R. P. , Ascough, P. L. , Dougans, A., Gallacher, P., Gulliver, P. , Rood, D. H., Xu, S. and Freeman, S. P.H.T. (2015) Performance of the rebuilt SUERC single-stage accelerator mass spectrometer. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, pp. 76-79. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.07.122)

Shanks, R. P. and Freeman, S. P.H.T. (2015) 160keV 26Al-AMS with a single-stage accelerator mass spectrometer. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, pp. 307-310. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.07.121)

Shanks, R. P. and Freeman, S. P.H.T. (2015) Sputter-pits casting to measure AMS sample consumption. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, pp. 168-172. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.03.060)

Xu, S., Freeman, S. P.H.T. , Rood, D. H. and Shanks, R. P. (2015) Decadal 10Be, 26Al and 36Cl QA measurements on the SUERC 5MV accelerator mass spectrometer. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 361, pp. 39-42. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2015.03.064)

Islam, M.R. et al. (2015) Near-threshold electron injection in the laser–plasma wakefield accelerator leading to femtosecond bunches. New Journal of Physics, 17(9), 093033. (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/093033)

Cipiccia, S. et al. (2015) Gamma-Ray Production from Resonant Betatron Oscillations of Accelerated Electrons in a Plasma Wakes. In: Advances in X-ray Free-Electron Lasers Instrumentation III, Prague, Czech Republic, 13 Apr 2015, 95121A. (doi: 10.1117/12.2181566)

2014

Manahan, G.G. et al. (2014) Characterization of laser-driven single and double electron bunches with a permanent magnet quadrupole triplet and pepper-pot mask. New Journal of Physics, 16(103006), (doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/10/103006)

Xu, S., Freeman, S. P.H.T. , Rood, D. H. and Shanks, R. P. (2014) 26Al interferences in accelerator mass spectrometry measurements. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 333, pp. 42-45. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2014.04.009)

Anania, M.P. et al. (2014) An ultrashort pulse ultra-violet radiation undulator source driven by a laser plasma wakefield accelerator. Applied Physics Letters, 104(264102), (doi: 10.1063/1.4886997)

2013

Bryant, C.L., Henley, S.F., Murray, C., Ganeshram, R.S. and Shanks, R.P. (2013) Storage and hydrolysis of seawater samples for inorganic carbon isotope snalysis. Radiocarbon, 55(2-3), pp. 401-409. (doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16360)

Xu, S., Freeman, S.P.H.T. , Sanderson, D. , Shanks, R. and Wilcken, K.M. (2013) Cl can interfere with Al³⁺ AMS but B need not matter to Be measurement. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 294, pp. 403-405. (doi: 10.1016/j.nimb.2012.01.045)

2012

Cipiccia, S. et al. (2012) A tuneable ultra-compact high-power, ultra-short pulsed, bright gamma-ray source based on bremsstrahlung radiation from laser-plasma accelerated electrons. Journal of Applied Physics, 111(6), Art. 063302. (doi: 10.1063/1.3693537)

Brunetti, E. et al. (2012) Characterisation of electron beams from laser-driven particle accelerators. In: 15th Workshop on Advanced Accelerator Concepts (AAC), Texas, TX, USA, 10-15 Jun 2012, pp. 672-675. (doi: 10.1063/1.4773778)

2011

Cipiccia, S. et al. (2011) Gamma-rays from harmonically resonant betatron oscillations in a plasma wake. Nature Physics, 7(11), pp. 867-871. (doi: 10.1038/NPHYS2090)

Jaroszynski, D.A. et al. (2011) Laser-driven radiation sources in the ALPHA-X project. In: Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves as Novel Radiation Sources from Terahertz to X-rays and Beyond III, Prague, Czech Republic, 15-18 Apr 2011, 80750O-80750O. (doi: 10.1117/12.891401)

Ledingham, K.W.D. et al. (2011) High resolution, single shot emittance measurement of relativistic electrons from laser-driven accelerator. In: Laser Acceleration of Electrons, Protons, and Ions; and Medical Applications of Laser-Generated Secondary Sources of Radiation and Particles, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-20 Apr 2011, p. 807909. (doi: 10.1117/12.887175)

2010

Wiggins, S.M. et al. (2010) High quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator. Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 52(12), Art. 124032. (doi: 10.1088/0741-3335/52/12/124032)

Brunetti, E. et al. (2010) Low emittance, high brilliance relativistic electron beams from a laser-plasma accelerator. Physical Review Letters, 105(21), Art. 215007. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.215007)

Wiggins, S.M., Shanks, R.P. and Issac, R.C. (2010) High quality electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator. In: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 16-21 May 2010,

2009

Wojda, F. et al. (2009) Laser-driven plasma waves in capillary tubes. Physical Review E, 80(6), Art. 066403. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.066403)

Gallacher, J.G. et al. (2009) A method of determining narrow energy spread electron beams from a laser plasma wakefield accelerator using undulator radiation. Physics of Plasmas, 16(9), Art. 093102. (doi: 10.1063/1.3216549)

Issac, R.C. et al. (2009) Electron beam pointing stability of a laser wakefield accelerator. In: SPIE Conference on Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves as Novel Radiation Sources from Terahertz to X-rays and Beyond, Prague, Czech Republic, 21–23 Apr 2009, pp. 735915-1. (doi: 10.1117/12.822165)

Jaroszynski, D.A. et al. (2009) Narrow spread electron beams from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator. In: Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves as Novel Radiation Sources from Terahertz to X-Rays and Beyond, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 Apr 2009, (doi: 10.1117/12.820733)

Schwoerer, H., Schlenvoigt, H.P., Haupt, K., Debus, A., Rohwer, E., Gallacher, J., Shanks, R. and Jaroszynski, D. (2009) An all-optical synchrotron light source. In: Corkum, P., Silvestri, S., Nelson, K.A., Riedle, E. and Schoenlein, R.W. (eds.) Ultrafast Phenomena XVI: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, Palazzo dei Congressi Stresa, Italy, June 9--13, 2008. Series: Springer series in chemical physics, 92. Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Berlin, pp. 813-815. ISBN 9783540959458 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_264)

Shanks, R.P. et al. (2009) Pepper-pot emittance measurement of laser-plasma wakefield accelerated electrons. In: Harnessing Relativistic Plasma Waves as Novel Radiation Sources from Terahertz to X-Rays and Beyond, Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 Apr 2009, (doi: 10.1117/12.820706)

2008

Schlenvoigt, H.P. et al. (2008) Synchrotron radiation from laser-accelerated monoenergetic electrons. IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36(4), pp. 1773-1781. (doi: 10.1109/TPS.2008.927146)

Schlenvoigt, H.-P. et al. (2008) A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator. Nature Physics, 4(2), pp. 130-133. (doi: 10.1038/nphys811)

2007

Hunt, N. T., Kattner, L., Shanks, R. P. and Wynne, K. (2007) The dynamics of water-protein interaction studied by ultrafast optical kerr-effect spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 129(11), pp. 3168-3172. (doi: 10.1021/ja066289n)

Hunt, N. T., Turton, D. A., Kattner, L., Shanks, R. P. and Wynne, K. (2007) Direct observation of the 'lubricant of life' using ultrafast spectroscopies. In: Ultrafast Phenomena XV: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference, Pacific Grove, USA, July 30 – August 4, 2006. Series: Springer series in chemical physics, 88. Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Berlin, pp. 504-506. (doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-68781-8_163)