Relativistic Compton Scattering Experiments: Applications to Science and Medicine
Biography
James Rosenzweig is a Distinguished Professor of Physics in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy specializing in research into advances accelerator, beam and radiation techniques, and their frontier applications across science. In pursuit of these goals, he directs a large research group at UCLA, the Particle Beam Physics Laboratory (PBPL.) The PBPL concentrates on fundamental aspects of high brightness, ultra-fast relativistic electron beams, with application to very high field accelerators based on lasers, wakefields, plasmas, dielectrics and to radiation production, such as free-electron lasers and Compton scattering sources.
This research enables new scientific methods using electron, terahertz optical and X-ray beams, which have to applications ranging from high field pumps to study nonequilibrium high field phenomena, and atomic-molecular level ultra-fast imaging techniques. This research program is based on-campus at the MITHRA advanced accelerator lad and the MOTHRA high field microwave research lab. These state-of-the-art facilities are complemented by a large external program emphasizing wakefield acceleration and at user facilities. Professor Rosenzweig is the author of more than 600 scientific articles and has written a textbook, Fundamentals of Beam Physics, emphasizing unity of concepts between charged particle and laser beams.
Dr. Rosenzweig is a lifetime member and Fellow of the American Physical Society. He has been the recipient of Sloan, SCC and Wilson Fellowships. In recognition of his contributions to his research fields, he has received the 2007 International Free-electron Laser Prize, 2022 Advanced Accelerator Prize and the 2023 Alfven Prize in Plasma Physics. Professor Rosenzweig has trained over 35 graduate students, and these scientists have gone on to key positions in the national labs, universities, and industry. He has served five years as the Chair of the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has also co-founded several industrial accelerator companies.
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