Igor Kaganovich

 
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My main fields of research are accelerator physics, physics and chemistry of plasmas and fluids, nonlinear transport phenomena and stochastic processes, atomic physics. I have broad experience in various areas of accelerator and plasma physics, which includes but not limited to:

·          high-energy density physics (HEDP)

·          low-temperature plasmas and gas-discharge physics

 

Books Referring to Igor Kaganovich's Results

High-energy density plasma physics

Ion beam-plasma interaction

  • I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, and R. C. Davidson, "Thin foil transformation into liquid droplets due to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in NDCX-1 experiments", High Energy Density Physics 7, (2011) 343-345. 
  • M. Dorf, I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, and R. C. Davidson, "Collective focusing of intense ion beam pulses for high-energy density physics applications", Phys. Plasmas 18, 033106 (2011). 
  • I. D. Kaganovich, R. C. Davidson, M. A. Dorf, E. A. Startsev, A. B. Sefkow, E. P. Lee, and A. Friedman, "Physics of neutralization of intense charged particle beam pulses by a background plasma", Phys. Plasmas 17, 056703 (2010). 
  • M. Dorf, I. D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev, and R. C. Davidson, "Whistler Wave Excitation and Effects of Self-Focusing on Ion Beam Propagation through a Background Plasma along a Solenoidal Magnetic Field", Phys. Plasmas 17, 023103 (2010). 
  • M. Dorf, I.D. Kaganovich, E.A. Startsev, and R.C. Davidson, "Enhanced Self-Focusing of an Ion Beam Pulse Propagating Through a Background Plasma Along a Solenoidal Magnetic Field", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 075003 (2009). 
  • A. B. Sefkow, R. C. Davidson, E. P. Gilson, I. D. Kaganovich, A. Anders, J. E. Coleman, M. Leitner, S. M. Lidia, P. K. Roy, P. A. Seidl, W. L. Waldron, S. S. Yu, and D. R. Welch, "Simulations and experiments of intense ion beam current density compression in space and time", Phys. Plasmas 16, 056701 (2009). 
  • Igor D. Kaganovich, Edward A. Startsev, Adam B. Sefkow, Ronald C. Davidson, "Controlling Charge and Current Neutralization of an Ion Beam Pulse in a Background Plasma by Application of a Solenoidal Magnetic Field", Phys. Plasmas 15, 103108 (2008). 
  • Igor D. Kaganovich, Edward A. Startsev, Adam B. Sefkow, Ronald C. Davidson, "Charge and Current Neutralization of an Ion-Beam Pulse Propagating in a Background Plasma along a Solenoidal Magnetic Field "Phys. Rev. Lett 99, 235002 (2007). 
  • Igor D. Kaganovich, Adam B. Sefkow, Edward A. Startsev, Ronald C. Davidson, Dale R. Welch, "Effects of finite pulse length, magnetic field, and gas ionization on ion beam pulse neutralization by background plasma", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 577, 93-102 (2007). 
  • 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).  

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Atomic physics for HEDP applications

  • I. D. Kaganovich, Ariel Shnidman, Harrison Mebane, and R.C. Davidson, "Calculation of charge-changing cross sections of ions or atoms colliding with fast ions using the classical trajectory method", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 606, 196-204 (2009).  
  • Michel Kireeff Covo, Igor D. Kaganovich, Ariel Shnidman, Arthur W. Molvik, and Jasmina L. Vujic, "Measurements of the total charge-changing cross sections for collisions of target gases with a 1-MeV K+-ion beam", Phys. Rev. A  78 (3), 032709 (2008).  
  • I.D. Kaganovich, E. A. Startsev and R. C. Davidson, "Scaling and formulary of cross sections for ion-atom impact ionization", New Journal of Physics 8, 278 (2006).  
  • 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).

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Collective effects, instabilities, pattern formation and turbulence

  • D. Sydorenko, A. Smolyakov, I. Kaganovich, and Y. Raitses, "Plasma-sheath instability in Hall thrusters due to periodic modulation of the energy of secondary electrons in cyclotron motion", Phys. Plasmas 15, 053506 (2008).  
  • Merger of super-Alfvenic current filaments during collisionless Weibel instability of relativistic electron beams", Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 175001 (2008).  
  • Oleg V. Polomarov, Adam B. Sefkow, Igor D. Kaganovich, Gennady Shvets, "Computationally efficient description of relativistic electron beam transport in collisionless plasma", Phys. Plasmas 14, 043103 (2007).  
  • 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).  

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Transport in HEDP

  • 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).  

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Low-temperature plasmas and and gas-discharge physics

  • 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).   

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Kinetic effects and studies of non-Maxwellian electron energy distribution functions

  • J. P. Sheehan, Y. Raitses, N. Hershkowitz, I. Kaganovich, and N. J. Fisch, "A comparison of emissive probe techniques for electric potential measurements in a complex plasma", Phys. Plasmas 18, 073501 (2011). 
  • Y. Raitses, I. D. Kaganovich, A. Khrabrov, D. Sydorenko, N.J. Fisch, A. Smolyakov, "Effect of Secondary Electron Emission on Electron Cross-Field Current in E x B Discharges" IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 39, 995-1006 (2011). 
  • D. Sydorenko, I. Kaganovich, Y. Raitses, A. Smolyakov, "Breakdown of a space charge limited regime of a sheath in a weakly collisional plasma bounded by walls with secondary electron emission", Phys Rev Lett. 103, 145004 (2009). 
  • D. Sydorenko, A. Smolyakov, I. Kaganovich, and Y. Raitses, "Effects of non-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution function on and two-stream instability in low-pressure discharges", Phys. Plasmas 14, 013508 (2007). 
  • I.D. Kaganovich, and Y. Raitses, D. Sydorenko, A. Smolyakov "Kinetic Effects in Hall Thruster Discharge", Phys. Plasmas 14, 057104 (2007); Proceedings of 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, paper 4831 (2006).  
  • D. Sydorenko, A. Smolyakov, I. Kaganovich, and Y. Raitses, "Modification of Electron Velocity Distribution in Bounded Plasmas by Secondary Electron Emission", IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 34, 895 (2006). 
  • D. Sydorenko, A. Smolyakov, I. Kaganovich, and Y. Raitses, "Kinetic simulation of secondary electron emission effects in Hall thrusters", Phys. Plasmas 13, 014501 (2006). 
  • Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, Igor D. Kaganovich, Demetre J. Economou, and Badri N. Ramamurthi, "Self-Consistent Modeling of Nonlocal Inductively Coupled Plasmas", IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 34, 767 (2006). 
  • 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", IEEE Trans. Plasma Science (2005); Special Issue of IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 2006 of PPPL workshop "Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas" (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. Misina, 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. Misina, 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 (N2), 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 (N2), 86-93 (1992).  
  • Y.M. Aliev, I.D. Kaganovich and H. Schloeter, "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. 

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Collisionless heating and anomalous phenomena in plasmas

  • I.D. Kaganovich, V.I. Demidov, VI; S.F. Adams, Y. Raitses, "Non Non-local collisionless and collisional electron transport in low-temperature plasma", Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusionnbsp;51, 124003 (2009).  
  • Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, Igor D. Kaganovich, Badri N. Ramamurthi and Demetre J. Economou, "Effectiveness of electron-cyclotron and transmission resonance heating in inductively coupled plasmas", Phys. Plasmas 12, 104505 (2005).  
  • Igor D. Kaganovich, Oleg V. Polomarov, Constantine E. Theodosiou, "Revisiting anomalous rf field penetration into a warm plasma", 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", 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. Schloeter, "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). 

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Transport in multi-component plasmas

  • 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).  

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Transport in magnetized plasmas

  • I.D. Kaganovich, V.A. Rozhansky, L.D. Tsendin and I.Yu. Veselova, "Fast expansion of a plasma beam controlled by short-circuiting effects in a longitudinal magnetic field", Plasma Sources Sci. Technol. 5, 743-747 (1996). 

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