Thomas R. Preston

McGill University — Canada

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

20h-index1.5kcitations161works2.72yr avg
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Research Topics

High-pressure geophysics and materials(37), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma(27), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques(25), Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics(23), Atomic and Molecular Physics(23)

Publications161 total

Formation of high-aspect-ratio nanocavity in LiF crystal using a femtosecond X-ray free-electron laser pulse
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
Scaling of thin wire cylindrical compression with material, diameter, and laser energy after 100 fs Joule surface heating
Matter and Radiation at Extremes·2025Open Access
Warm dense matter studies with X-ray free-electron lasers
Nature Reviews Physics·2025
Shake-off in XFEL heated solid density plasma
2025Open Access
Demonstration of full-scale spatiotemporal diagnostics of solid-density plasmas driven by an ultra-short relativistic laser pulse using an X-ray free-electron laser
Matter and Radiation at Extremes·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
X-ray thermal diffuse scattering as a texture-robust temperature diagnostic for dynamically compressed solids
Journal of Applied Physics·2025Open Access
HEART: A new X-ray tracing code for mosaic crystal spectrometers
Computer Physics Communications·2025Open Access
Probing laser-driven surface and subsurface dynamics via grazing-incidence XFEL scattering and diffraction
ArXiv.org·2025Open Access
Orientational Effects in the Low Pair Continuum of Aluminium
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
Scaling of thin wire cylindrical compression after 100 fs Joule surface heating with material, diameter and laser energy
arXiv (Cornell University)·2025Open Access
High-quality ultra-fast total scattering and pair distribution function data using an X-ray free-electron laser
IUCrJ·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Calibration and characterization of the line-VISAR diagnostic at the HED-HIBEF instrument at the European XFEL
Review of Scientific Instruments·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Model-Free Temperature Diagnostics of Warm Dense Matter from Multiple Scattering Angles
2025
Model-Free Thermometry from X-Ray Thomson Scattering Without Deconvolving the Source and Instrument Function
2025
Visualizing plasmons and ultrafast kinetic instabilities in laser-driven solids using X-ray scattering
2025
Diagnostics and qualitative analysis of highly charged ions emitted from copper foil exposed to ultrashort x-ray laser pulses
2025
The structure of liquid carbon elucidated by in situ X-ray diffraction
Nature·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Applying the Liouville–Lanczos method of time-dependent density-functional theory to warm dense matter
Matter and Radiation at Extremes·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Model-free Rayleigh weight from x-ray Thomson scattering measurements
Physics of Plasmas·2025· 13 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

U. Zastrau(19), Karen Appel(14), J. S. Wark(13), D. Kraus(13), Jan Vorberger(12), S. M. Vinko(11), Zuzana Konôpková(11), Mikako Makita(11), Oliver Humphries(11), Valerio Cerantola(10), M. Nakatsutsumi(10), A. Pełka(10), L. B. Fletcher(10), Hauke Höppner(9), Tobias Dornheim(9), Zhandos A. Moldabekov(9), S. Göde(9), O. Ciricosta(8), Carsten Baehtz(8), E. Brambrink(8)