Rami A. Kishek

Rami A. Kishek received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering, 1993, the M.S.E. degree in nuclear engineering, 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering, 1997, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree, Professor Kishek joined the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md, where he became involved with the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) at its inception. (UMER is a low-energy ring designed to accommodate an unprecedented intensity to mimic the high-quality beams in future ion accelerators, energy recovery linacs, and free electron lasers.) Kishek’s involvement was central in translating UMER from a paper design to a working machine for groundbreaking experiments in beam dynamics. His wider contributions to the Maryland group include building a computational capability, expanding its field of research and initiating fruitful collaborations, managing the UMER construction project, and (for the past 2 years) leading the overall development effort. Professor Kishek has authored over 40 refereed publications on topics such as the propagation of space charge waves in beams and their role in equilibration, stability, and energy transfer; halo production mechanism and control of particle losses; the role of chaos on dissipation and mixing in beams; sources of energy spread and dispersion; microwave sources; secondary electron emission and multipactor breakdown. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, as well as a Member of APS, AAAS, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

Biography Updated on 7 August 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.umer.umd.edu/ramiak/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Scaled electron experiments at the University of Maryland?
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 577, no. 1-2, pp. 150–156, 2007
  2. Measurement and simulation of the time-dependent behavior of the UMER source
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 577, no. 1-2, pp. 157–160, 2007
  3. Heavy-ion-fusion-science: summary of US progress
    Nuclear Fusion, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 721–727, 2007
  4. Experimental observations of longitudinal space-charge waves in intense electron beams
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 9, no. 1, 2006
  5. RMS envelope matching of electron beams from “zero” current to extreme space charge in a fixed lattice of short magnets
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 9, no. 6, 2006
  6. Tomography as a diagnostic tool for phase space mapping of intense particle beams
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 9, no. 11, 2006
  7. Commissioning of the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER): Advances toward multiturn operation
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 13, no. 5, p. 056703, 2006
  8. UMER: An analog computer for dynamics of swarms interacting via long-range forces
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 561, no. 2, pp. 266–271, 2006
  9. HIF research on the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER)
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 179–186, 2005
  10. Overview of US heavy-ion fusion progress and plans
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 1–8, 2005
  11. Beam control and matching for the transport of intense beams
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 367–373, 2005
  12. Experimental tests of the injection Y on the University of Maryland Electron Ring
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 374–377, 2005
  13. Measurement and simulation of the UMER beam in the source region
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 441–446, 2005
  14. Coherent error study in a retarding field energy analyzer
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 544, no. 1-2, pp. 527–532, 2005
  15. Overview of US heavy ion fusion research
    Nuclear Fusion, vol. 45, no. 2, pp. 131–137, 2005
  16. Chaotic Collisionless Evolution in Galaxies and Charged-Particle Beams
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1045, no. 1, pp. 12–33, 2005
  17. The University of Maryland Electron Ring: A Platform For Study of Galactic Dynamics on a Laboratory Scale
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1045, no. 1, pp. 45–54, 2005
  18. Measurement of beam energy spread in a space-charge dominated electron beam
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 7, no. 7, 2004
  19. Intense beam transport experiments in a multi-bend system at the University of Maryland Electron Ring
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 519, no. 1-2, pp. 380–387, 2004
  20. Collective space-charge phenomena in the source region
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 519, no. 1-2, pp. 396–404, 2004
  21. Simulation studies on matching of space-charge-dominated beams for the University of Maryland Electron Ring
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 519, no. 1-2, pp. 405–411, 2004
  22. Beam experiments in the extreme space-charge limit on the University of Maryland Electron Ring
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 11, no. 5, p. 2907, 2004
  23. Design and operation of a retarding field energy analyzer with variable focusing for space-charge-dominated electron beams
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 75, no. 8, p. 2736, 2004
  24. Simulations and experiments with space-charge-dominated beams
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 10, no. 5, p. 2016, 2003
  25. Progress in heavy ion fusion research
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 10, no. 5, p. 2064, 2003
  26. End-to-end simulation: The front end
    Laser and Particle Beams, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 431–433, 2002
  27. Experiments with space-charge-dominated beams for heavy ion fusion applications
    Laser and Particle Beams, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 599–602, 2002
  28. Compact high-resolution retarding field energy analyzer for space-charge-dominated electron beams
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 5, no. 7, 2002
  29. Erratum: Energy Transfer in Nonequilibrium Space-Charge-Dominated Beams [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4514 (2000)]
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 2698–2698, 2001
  30. Recent progress in heavy ion fusion simulations
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 343–350, 2001
  31. Transverse space-charge modes in non-equilibrium beams
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 484–492, 2001
  32. Injector for the University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER)
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 605–609, 2001
  33. Planning for an integrated research experiment
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 621–628, 2001
  34. The University Maryland Electron Ring (UMER)
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 464, no. 1-3, pp. 646–652, 2001
  35. Design and field measurements of printed-circuit quadrupoles and dipoles
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 3, no. 12, 2000
  36. Energy Transfer in Nonequilibrium Space-Charge-Dominated Beams
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 85, no. 21, pp. 4514–4517, 2000
  37. Observations and Simulations of Transverse Density Waves in a Collimated Space-Charge Dominated Electron Beam
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 20, pp. 4002–4005, 1999
  38. Recent progress in the simulation of heavy ion beams
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 6, no. 5, p. 2254, 1999
  39. Multipactor Discharge on a Dielectric
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 193–196, 1998
  40. Transport of a space-charge dominated electron beam in a short-quadrupole channel
    Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 1, no. 4, 1998
  41. Power deposited on a dielectric by multipactor
    IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 290–295, 1998
  42. Studies of the physics of space-charge-dominated beams for heavy ion inertial fusion
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 415, no. 1-2, pp. 422–427, 1998
  43. Beam dynamics simulations of the University of Maryland Electron-Ring Project
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 415, no. 1-2, pp. 417–421, 1998
  44. Frequency response of multipactor discharge
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 300, 1998
  45. Multipactor discharge on metals and dielectrics: Historical review and recent theories
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 5, no. 5, p. 2120, 1998
  46. Steady state multipactor and dependence on material properties
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 863, 1997
  47. A novel phase focusing mechanism in multipactor discharge
    Physics of Plasmas, vol. 3, no. 5, p. 1481, 1996
  48. Interaction of Multipactor Discharge and rf Circuit
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 1218–1221, 1995