Selected publications grouped according to topics

Igor D. Kaganovich, Edward Startsev, and Ronald C. Davidson "Images of Complex Interactions of an Intense Ion Beam with Plasma Electrons", IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 33, N2, 556-557 (2005); ppplreport , . 

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Ion beam pulse neutralization by a background plasma in a solenoidal magnetic fiel", Proceedings of HIF symposium 2004 Princeton, NJ, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 544, 383-388 (2005).

I. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Nonlinear plasma waves excitation by intense ion beams in background plasma", Phys. Plasmas 11 3546-3552 (2004) ppplreport  ; Movies are available at PoP depository .

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Analytical and numerical studies of the complex interaction of a fast ion beam pulse with a background plasma", Physica Scripta T107 54-59 (2004), invited talk at ITCPP "Complex Plasma in New Millenium" 2003, Santorini, Greece ppplreport   .

I.D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Analytical and Numerical Studies of Heavy Ion Beam Transport In the Fusion Chamber", Laser and Particle Beams 20, 497-502 (2002)  .

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, S. Klasky and R. C. Davidson, "Ion Beam – Plasma Neutralization Interaction Images", IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 30, 12 (2002).    

Igor D. Kaganovich, Gennady Shvets, Edward Startsev and Ronald C. Davidson, "Nonlinear charge and current neutralization of an ion beam pulse in a pre-formed plasma", Physics of Plasmas 8 (N 9), 4180-4192 (2001).  

Igor D. Kaganovich, Edward A. Startsev and Ronald C. Davidson, Steve R. Kecskemeti, Amitai Bin-Nun, Dennis Mueller and Larry Grisham, Rand L. Watson, Vladimir Horvat, Konstantinos E. Zaharakis, and Yong Peng, "Ionization Cross Sections for Ion-Atom Collisions in High Energy Ion Beams", invited talk at HIF symposium 2004 Princeton, NJ, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 544, 91-97 (2005).  

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Comparison of quantum mechanical and classical trajectory calculations of cross sections for ion-atom impact ionization of negative - and positive -ions for heavy ion fusion applications", Phys. Rev. A 68, 022707 (2003), arxiv, ppplreport . 

I.D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Scaling cross sections for ion-atom impact ionization", (2004) arxiv   ppplreport ; 

short version Phys. Plasmas 11 1229-1232 (2004) . 

D. Mueller, L. Grisham, I. Kaganovich, R. L. Watson, V. Horvat, K. E. Zaharakis and Y. Peng, "Multiple Electron Stripping of Heavy Ions Beams," Laser and Particle Beams 20, 551-554 (2002).

D. Mueller, L. Grisham, I. Kaganovich, R.L. Watson, V. Horvat and K.E. Zaharakis " Multiple electron stripping of 3.4MeV/amu Kr7+ and Xe11+ in nitrogen", Physics of Plasmas, 8 (N 5), 1753-1756 (2001).  

Yu.E. Gorbachev, I.D. Kaganovich and V.M. Strelchenya, "Quasiclassical description of rotational transitions in molecules of the asymmetric top type", Sov. Phys.- J.E.T.P. 68 (N 5), 908-917 (1989).

Ronald C. Davidson, Igor Kaganovich, and Edward A. Startsev, "Weibel and Two-Stream Instabilities for Intense Charged Particle Beam Propagation through Neutralizing Background Plasma" ppplreport  short note 

R. C. Davidson, I Kaganovich, H. Qin, E. A. Startsev, D. R. Welch, D. V. Rose and H. S. Uhm, "Survey of Collective Instabilities and Beam-Plasma Interactions for Heavy Ion Beams", Physical Review Special Topics on Accelerators and Beams 7, 114801 (2004).  

Gennady Shvets, Igor Kaganovich and Edward Startsev, Comment on "Generation of Electromagnetic Pulses from Plasma Channels Induced by Femtosecond Light Strings", Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 139301 (2002).

I.D. Kaganovich and V. A. Rozhansky, "Transverse conductivity in braided magnetic field", Phys. of Plasmas 5 (N 11), 3901-3909 (1998).

I.D. Kaganovich, L.D. Tsendin and N.A. Yatsenko, "Two-dimensional RF discharge at the medium pressures", Zhurnal Tecknicheskoi Fisiki 64 (N 12), 1994 [Sov.Phys.-Tech. Phys. 39, 1215-1226 (1994)].  

M.A. Fedotov, I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Ionization instability of Townsend discharge and transition to normal one", Zhurnal Tecknicheskoi Fisiki, 64 (N 3), 34-36 (1994) [Sov.Phys.-Tech. Phys. 39, (1994)].  

I.D. Kaganovich, "An analogy between the Miller force and high frequency diffusion", Tech. Phys. Lett. 19 (N 5), 276-276 (1993).  

A.V. Bogdanov, Yu.E. Gorbachev and I.D. Kaganovich, "Statistical T-Matrix in the dense gas theory and Enscog approach", Teoreticheskaya i mathematicheskaya fizika, 87, 241-253 (1991).  

Yu.E. Gorbachev and I.D. Kaganovich, "Calculation of viscosity and heat conductivity coefficients in the first approximation on density for Sutherlend potential", Sov. J. - Modeling in Mechanics 3 (N 6), 35-42 (1989).  

Igor D. Kaganovich, "How to Patch Active Plasma and Collisionless Sheath: Practical Guide", Physics of Plasmas 9, 4788-4803 (2002), arxiv  .

I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Collisionless electrode sheath in an rf discharge", Sov.-Phys. Tech. Phys. Lett. 16 (N 1), 43-45 (1990).   

Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, Igor D. Kaganovich, " Enhanced collisionless heating in a non-uniform plasma at the bounce resonance condition", Phys. Plasmas 12, 080704 (2005).  arxiv 

Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, Igor D. Kaganovich, Badri N. Ramamurthi and Demetre J. Economou, "Effect of ECR and Cavity Resonance in Magnetically Enhanced Inductively Coupled Plasmas", submitted to IEEE Trans. Plasma Science (2005); Special Issue of IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 2006 of PPPL workshop "Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas"  to be published in 2006. 

I. D. Kaganovich and O. Polomarov, "Self-consistent system of equations for kinetic description of low-pressure discharges accounting for nonlocal and collisionless electron dynamics", Phys. Rev. E 68, 026411 (2003), arxiv  ppplreport .

B. Ramamurthi, D. J. Economou, and I. D. Kaganovich, "Effect of Electron Energy Distribution Function on Power Deposition and Plasma Density in an Inductively Coupled Discharge at Very Low Pressures", Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 12, 302-312 (2003),  arxiv  . 

B. Ramamurthi, D. J. Economou, and I. D. Kaganovich, "Effects of nonlocal conductivity on power absorption and plasma density profiles for low pressure inductively coupled discharges", Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 12, 170-181 (2003), arxiv .

I.D. Kaganovich, M. Mišina, R. Gijbels and S.V. Berezhnoi, "Electron Boltzmann kinetic equation averaged over fast electron bouncing and pitch-angle scattering for fast modeling of electron cyclotron resonance discharge", Phys. Rev. E. 61, 1875-1889 (2000).  

S.V. Berezhnoi, I.D. Kaganovich, M. Mišina, A. Bogaerts and R. Gijbels, "Semianalytic description of nonlocal secondary electrons in a radio frequency capacitively coupled plasma at intermediate pressures", IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 27 (N5), 1339-1348 (1999).    

S.V. Berezhnoi, I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Formation of cold electron population in capacitively coupled discharge as analogy of heat explosion", Plasma Physics Reports 24 (N 7), 556-563 (1998).    

S.V. Berezhnoi, I.D. Kaganovich, L.D. Tsendin, "Fast modeling of low pressure radio-frequency collisional capacitively coupled discharge and investigation of non-Maxwellian electron distribution function", Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 7 (N 3), 268-281 (1998).  

S.V. Berezhnoi, I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Fast self-consistent kinetic modeling of low-pressure RF discharges", Appl. Phys. Lett. 69 (N 16), 2341-2344 (1996).  

I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "The space- time averaging procedure and modeling of the RF discharge", IEEE Transactions on plasma science 20 (N 2), 66-76 (1992).

I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Low pressure RF discharge in the free-flight regime", IEEE Transactions on plasma science 20 (N 2), 86-93 (1992).  

Y.M. Aliev, I.D. Kaganovich and H. Schlüter, "Collisionless electron heating in rf gas discharges: I. Quasilinear theory", in. U.Kortshagen and L.Tsendin (eds.) "Electron Kinetics and Applications of  Glow Discharges", NATO ARW, St. Petersburg, Plenum, 1997.   

U. Buddemeier and I. D. Kaganovich, "Collisionless electron heating in rf gas discharges: II. The role of collisions and non-linear effects" in. U.Kortshagen and L.Tsendin (eds.) "Electron Kinetics and Applications of Glow Discharges", NATO ARW, St. Petersburg, Plenum, 1997.  

Igor D. Kaganovich, Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, "Revisiting anomalous rf field penetration into a warm plasma", submitted to IEEE Trans. Plasma Science (2005). arxiv ppplreport    ; Special Issue of IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 2006 of PPPL workshop "Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas"  to be published in 2006. 

Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, Igor D. Kaganovich, Badri N. Ramamurthi and Demetre J. Economou, "Resonance effects in magnetically enhanced inductively coupled plasmas", submitted to Phys. Plasmas (2005).

I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and G. Shvets, "Anomalous skin effect for anisotropic electron velocity distribution function", Phys. Plasmas 11 3328-3330 (2004).

I. D. Kaganovich, O. Polomarov and C. Theodosiou, "Landau damping and anomalous skin effect in low-pressure gas discharges: self-consistent treatment of collisionless heating", invited paper at APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2003, Phys. Plasmas 11 2399-2410 (2004).

Igor D. Kaganovich, "Anomalous Capacitive Sheath with Deep Radio Frequency Electric Field Penetration", Phys. Rev. Lett., 89, 265006 (2002), arxiv . 

I.D. Kaganovich, "Effects of collisions and particle trapping on collisionless heating", Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 (N2), 327-331 (1999).  

Y.M. Aliev, I.D. Kaganovich and H. Schlüter, "Quasilinear theory of stochastic electron heating", Phys. of Plasmas 4, 2413-2421 (1997).

I.D. Kaganovich, V.A. Kolobov and L.D. Tsendin, "Stochastic electron heating in bounded rf plasmas", App. Phys. Lett. 69, 3818-3821 (1996).

Igor Kaganovich, "Negative ion density fronts", special issue of Physics of Plasmas – invited papers of APS DPP 2000, 8 (N5), 2540-2548 (2001)   . 

I. Kaganovich, S.V. Berezhnoi and C.B. Shin, "Signal propagation in collisional plasma with negative ions", Physics of Plasmas 8 (N3), 719-725 (2001).  

I.D. Kaganovich, B. Ramamutri and D.J. Economou, "Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Charged Species in the Afterglow of Plasmas Containing Negative Ions", Phys. Rev. E 64 036402 (2001).  

I.D. Kaganovich, B. N. Ramamurthi and D.J. Economou, "Self trapping of negative ions due to electron detachment in the afterglow of electronegative gas plasmas", Appl. Phys. Lett. 76 (N20), 2844-2846 (2000).  

S.V. Berezhnoj, U. Buddemeier, I. Kaganovich and C.B. Shina, "Charged Species Profiles in Oxygen Plasma", Appl. Phys. Lett. 77 (N 6), 800-802 (2000).  

I.D. Kaganovich, D.J. Economou, B. Ramamutri and V. Midha, "Negative Ion Density Fronts during Ignition and Extinction of Plasmas in Electronegative Gases", Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (N 9), 1918-1922 (2000).  

A.J. Lichtenberg, I. Kouznetsov, Y.T. Lee, M.A. Lieberman, I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Modeling electronegative plasma discharges at high electronegativity", Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 6, 437-449 (1997).  

Yu.E. Gorbachev, M.A. Zatevakhin and I.D. Kaganovich, "Simulation of the growth of hydrogenated amorphous silicon films from an rf discharge plasma", Tech. Phys. 41 (N 12), 1247-1257 (1996). 

I.D. Kaganovich, "RF discharge with negative ions at medium pressure", Plasma Phys. Rep. 21 (N 5), 434-442 (1995).  

I.D. Kaganovich and L.D. Tsendin, "Formation of discontinuities in multistage evolution associated with diffusion of a multicomponent weakly ionized hot electron plasma", Plasma Phys. Rep. 19, (N 10), 645-650 (1993).