Pietro Musumeci
Pietro Musumeci was born in 1975 in Rome, Italy. He obtained his B.S. cum laude degree from University of Rome La Sapienza in 1998. He then continued his studies in the US West Coast ,where he got his Ph.D. degree from the University of California in Los Angeles in 2004. He returned to Italy where he worked as a postdoctor at the INFN, Roma. He has recently joined the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy as an Assistant Professor. He is a highly recognized beam physicist with a strong background in laser acceleration (plasma beatwaves and world-record acceleration achieved in an IFEL), FEL physics (superradiant and nonlinear FEL studies), and advanced beam physics. His accomplishments in this area include experiments on high brightness beam production by chicane as well as velocity bunching. Recently, he has been responsible for commissioning the first Italian photoinjector, SPARC. In this context, he was one of the leaders of the initial tests of the blow-out regime in rf photoinjectors. He now leads the implementation at the UCLA PEGASUS lab of a state-of-the-art Ti:Sa laser, with the goal of producing a photoinjector suited to for basic beam research and electron diffraction.
Biography Updated on 6 July 2007
Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Experimental Characterization of Superradiance in a Single-Pass High-Gain Laser-Seeded Free-Electron Laser Amplifier
Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, no. 3, 2007 - The free-electron laser harmonic cascade
New Journal of Physics, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 294–294, 2006 - High Energy Gain of Trapped Electrons in a Tapered, Diffraction-Dominated Inverse-Free-Electron Laser
Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, no. 15, 2005 - Higher harmonic inverse free-electron laser interaction
Physical Review E, vol. 72, no. 1, 2005 - Nonlinear pulse evolution in seeded free-electron laser amplifiers and in free-electron laser cascades
Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 98, no. 4, p. 043110, 2005 - Sextupole correction of the longitudinal transport of relativistic beams in dispersionless translating sections
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 8, no. 1, 2005 - Velocity bunching of high-brightness electron beams
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 8, no. 1, 2005 - Enhanced Acceleration of Injected Electrons in a Laser-Beat-Wave-Induced Plasma Channel
Physical Review Letters, vol. 92, no. 9, 2004 - The SPARC/X SASE-FEL Projects
Laser and Particle Beams, vol. 22, no. 03, 2004 - Nonresonant beat-wave excitation of relativistic plasma waves with constant phase velocity for charged-particle acceleration
Physical Review E, vol. 69, no. 2, 2004 - Experiments on laser driven beatwave acceleration in a ponderomotively formed plasma channel
Physics of Plasmas, vol. 11, no. 5, p. 2875, 2004 - Horizontal Phase-Space Distortions Arising from Magnetic Pulse Compression of an Intense, Relativistic Electron Beam
Physical Review Letters, vol. 91, no. 7, 2003 - An undulator with non-adiabatic tapering for the IFEL project
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 483, no. 1-2, pp. 377–382, 2002 - Initial gain measurements of an 800nm SASE FEL, VISA
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 475, no. 1-3, pp. 339–342, 2001 - Status and initial commissioning of a high gain 800nm SASE FEL
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 445, no. 1-3, pp. 160–163, 2000 - TREDI: fully 3D beam dynamics simulation of RF guns, bendings and FELs
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 436, no. 3, pp. 443–444, 1999 - Diamagnetic fields due to finite-dimension intense beams in high-gain free-electron lasers
Physical Review E, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. R2737–R2740, 1998