James Benjamin Rosenzweig

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James Rosenzweig
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James Benjamin Rosenzweig
Education University of Wisconsin–Madison (Ph.D.)
Known forBlowout regime in plasma wakefield acceleration
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Plasma physics
Institutions UCLA
Thesis Plasma Wake Fields in High-Energy Physics: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation  (1988)

James Benjamin Rosenzweig is a experimental plasma physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [1] In the field of plasma wakefield acceleration, he is regarded as the father of the non-linear "blowout" interaction regime, where a laser beam, when fired into a plasma at intense levels, expels electrons from the plasma and creates a spherical structure that can effectively focus and accelerate the plasma. [2]

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Rosenzweig's research on accelerator technologies and light source development is also considered to be pioneering in the field. [2] For his research on plasma acceleration and electron beams, Rosenzweig was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998. [3] He is the recipient of the 2007 Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize, 2022 Advanced Accelerator Prize, [1] and the 2023 Hannes Alfvén Prize. [2]

Early life and career

Rosenzweig received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1988. [4]

From 2009 to 2014, Rosenzweig served as the chair of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy. [5] He is the director of the UCLA's Particle Beam Physics Laboratory, which primarily focuses on exploring the fundamental aspects of high brightness, ultra-fast relativistic electron beams. [6]

Rosenzweig co-founded several industrial accelerator companies, including RadiaBeam Technologies in 2003. [7] [8]

Scientific contributions

Rosenzweig's research specializes in advanced accelerator, [9] beam, [10] and radiation techniques, [11] along with their applications across various scientific disciplines. His research has applications in very high field accelerators based on lasers, wakefields, plasmas and dielectrics, as well as the production of radiation in free-electron lasers and Compton scattering sources, with applications ranging from high field pumps for studying non-equilibrium high field phenomena to atomic-molecular level ultra-fast imaging techniques. [12]

Rosenzweig has written a textbook, Fundamentals of Beam Physics, which emphasizes unity of concepts between charged particles and laser beams. [13]

Honors and awards

Rosenzweig was awarded the Sloan Research Fellowship in 1993. [14] He is a recipient of the SCC and Wilson Fellowships. [12]

In 1998, Rosenzweig was inducted as a fellow of the American Physical Society for his "experimental and theoretical work on plasma wakefield acceleration and focusing techniques, and developments in the theory and diagnosis of high brightness, short pulse electron beams". [3]

In 2007, Rosenzweig was jointly awarded the Free Electron Laser (FEL) Prize with Ilan Ben-Zvi. [15] He was awarded the 2022 Advanced Accelerator Prize [1]

In 2023, Rosenzweig, along with Pisin Chen and Chandrashekhar J. Joshi, jointly received the Hannes Alfvén Prize from the European Physical Society. They were honored for inventing and pioneering the technique of beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration (PWFA). [2]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 kmcc (2024-01-09). "2023 EPS Hannes Alfvén Prize2023 | European Physical Society – Plasma Physics Division" . Retrieved 2024-01-25.
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  5. ↑ "University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Physics". history.aip.org. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  6. ↑ "Particle Beam Physics Laboratory". pbpl.physics.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
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  9. ↑ Rosenzweig, J. B.; Breizman, B.; Katsouleas, T.; Su, J. J. (1991). "Acceleration and focusing of electrons in two-dimensional nonlinear plasma wake fields". Physical Review A. 44 (10): R6189–R6192. Bibcode:1991PhRvA..44.6189R. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.44.R6189. PMID   9905840.
  10. ↑ Serafini, Luca; Rosenzweig, James B. (1997). "Envelope analysis of intense relativistic quasilaminar beams in rf photoinjectors:mA theory of emittance compensation". Physical Review E. 55 (6): 7565–7590. Bibcode:1997PhRvE..55.7565S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.55.7565.
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  14. ↑ "Fellows Database". sloan.org. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
  15. ↑ "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Ilan Ben-Zvi Wins Free Electron Laser Prize". Brookhaven National Laboratory. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
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