Ilan Ben-Zvi
Ilan Ben-Zvi is an accelerator physicist, academic and author. He was the associate chair for accelerator R&D at the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD), and is a distinguished scientist emeritus at the Collider-Accelerator Department (C-AD) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.[1]
Ilan Ben-Zvi | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.S., Mathematics and Physics M.S., Physics Ph.D., Nuclear Physics |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Ben-Zvi is most known for his work on accelerator physics, experimental physics, and beam physics. He has authored several books including Free-electron Laser Research and Development at BNL and The BNL Accelerator Test Facility and Experimental Program.[2] He was also awarded the 2007 Free Electron Laser Prize for his contributions to the field of Free-Electron Lasers.[3]
Ben-Zvi is a life member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[1]
Early life and education
Ben-Zvi completed his Bachelor's in Physics and Mathemetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1970, he obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Gvirol Goldring.[1]
Scientific career
Following his Ph.D., Ben-Zvi worked as a post-doctoral researcher in accelerator physics of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) at Stanford University. He returned to the Weizmann Institute in 1975 as a Senior Scientist. Moreover, at the Weizmann Institute, he continued his work on heavy ion linacs and introduced the SRF QWR to INFN Legnaro, enabling the APLI machine. He also developed the current leads for the superconducting electron-proton collider HERA. He spent two years on sabbatical leave at Stony Brook University, on a team building a superconducting heavy ion linac. There he developed the first superconducting Quarter Wave Resonator (QWR).[4] Later in 1988, he started a sabbatical leave jointly at Stony Brook University and Brookhaven National Laboratory. At Stony Brook, he developed the first SRF Radio Frequency Quadrupole, which was tested and formed the basis for the PIAVE injector of APLI.[5] At BNL, he worked to construct the Accelerator Test Facility (ATF). In 1989, he became the director of the ATF, a position he held until 2004.[1] In 2001, he moved to the Collider-Accelerator Department, where initially he worked on developing electron cooling for the RHIC collider,[6] then proceeded to carry out research and development for the Electron-Ion Collider.[7][8][9]
Awards and honors
- 1994 – Fellow, American Physical Society[10]
- 1999 – IEEE NPSS Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award, IEEE
- 2001 – BN Science and Technology Award, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- 2007 – Free-Electron Laser Prize, International Free Electron Laser Conference[3]
- 2007 – Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science[11]
- 2008 – IEEE NPSS Merit Award, Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society[12]
- 2008 – IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[13]
- 2022 – IEEE Life Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers[1]
Bibliography
Books and book chapters
- Ben-Zvi, I. Editor, UV Free-Electron Laser Preliminary Design Report. BNL NSLS Informal Report (2/93). [BNL-48565]
- Ben-Zvi, I., and Winick, H., Eds. Towards Short Wavelength Free-Electron Lasers. Proceedings of Towards Short Wavelengths FELS Workshop, May 21–22, 1993, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton NY. (1993). [BNL-49651]
- Ben-Zvi, I., and Krinsky, S., Guest editors, Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Free Electron Laser Conference, New York, NY, USA, August 21–25, 1995, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1996, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A375.
- Ben-Zvi, I., Photoinjectors, in Accelerator Physics technology and Applications, A.W. Chao, H.O. Moserand Z. Zhao, Eds., World Scientific 2004, ISBN 981-238-794-3.
- Ben-Zvi, I., Photoinjectors, In Femtosecond Beam Science, M. Uesaka Ed., World Scientific 2005, ISBN 1-86094-343-8.
Selected articles
- Wang, X. J., Qiu, X., & Ben-Zvi, I. (1996). Experimental observation of high-brightness microbunching in a photocathode rf electron gun. Physical Review E, 54(4), R3121.
- Pogorelsky, I. V., Ben-Zvi, I., Hirose, T., Kashiwagi, S., Yakimenko, V., Kusche, K., ... & Cline, D. (2000). Demonstration of 8× 10 18 photons/second peaked at 1.8 Å in a relativistic Thomson scattering experiment. Physical Review Special Topics-Accelerators and Beams, 3(9), 090702.
- Yu, L. H., Babzien, M., Ben-Zvi, I., DiMauro, L. F., Doyuran, A., Graves, W., ... & Vasserman, I. (2000). High-gain harmonic-generation free-electron laser. Science, 289(5481), 932–934.
- Nuhn, H. D. (2002). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) Conceptual Design Report (No. SLAC-R-593). SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States).
- Fernandez, J. A., Adolphsen, C., Akay, A. N., Aksakal, H., Albacete, J. L., Alekhin, S., ... & Sultansoy, S. (2012). A large hadron electron collider at CERN report on the physics and design concepts for machine and detector. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 39(7), 075001.
References
- "IEEE Fellows Directory - Member Profile". services27.ieee.org.
- "The BNL Accelerator Test Facility and experimental program".
- "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Ilan Ben-Zvi Wins Free Electron Laser Prize". Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- Ben-Zvi, I.; Brennan, J. M. (July 1, 1983). "The quarter wave resonator as a superconducting linac element". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. 212 (1): 73–79. Bibcode:1983NIMPR.212...73B. doi:10.1016/0167-5087(83)90678-6 – via ScienceDirect.
- "DESIGN OF A SUPERCONDUCTING RFQ RESONATOR".
- "ELECTRON COOLING FOR RHIC" (PDF).
- "ERL based electron-ion collider eRHIC".
- Litvinenko, Vladimir N.; Beebe-Wang, Joanne; Belomestnykh, Sergei; Ben-Zvi, Ilan; Blaskiewicz, Michael M.; Calaga, Rama; Chang, Xiangyun; Fedotov, Alexei; Gassner, David; Hammons, Lee; Hahn, Harald; Hao, Yue; He, Ping; Jackson, William; Jain, Animesh; Johnson, Elliott C.; Kayran, Dmitry; Kewisch, Jrg; Luo, Yun; Mahler, George; McIntyre, Gary; Meng, Wuzheng; Minty, Michiko; Parker, Brett; Pikin, Alexander; Pozdeyev, Eduard; Ptitsyn, Vadim; Rao, Triveni; Roser, Thomas; Skaritka, John; Sheehy, Brian; Tepikian, Steven; Than, Yatming; Trbojevic, Dejan; Tsentalovich, Evgeni; Tsoupas, Nicholaos; Tuozzolo, Joseph; Wang, Gang; Webb, Stephen; Wu, Qiong; Xu, Wencan; Zelenski, Anatoly (September 13, 2011). "High-energy high-luminosity electron-ion collider eRHIC". arXiv:1109.2819 [physics.acc-ph].
- Aschenauer, E. C.; Baker, M. D.; Bazilevsky, A.; Boyle, K.; Belomestnykh, S.; Ben-Zvi, I.; Brooks, S.; Brutus, C.; Burton, T.; Fazio, S.; Fedotov, A.; Gassner, D.; Hao, Y.; Jing, Y.; Kayran, D.; Kiselev, A.; Lamont, M. A. C.; Lee, J.-H.; Litvinenko, V. N.; Liu, C.; Ludlam, T.; Mahler, G.; McIntyre, G.; Meng, W.; Meot, F.; Miller, T.; Minty, M.; Parker, B.; Petti, R.; Pinayev, I.; Ptitsyn, V.; Roser, T.; Stratmann, M.; Sichtermann, E.; Skaritka, J.; Tchoubar, O.; Thieberger, P.; Toll, T.; Trbojevic, D.; Tsoupas, N.; Tuozzolo, J.; Ullrich, T.; Wang, E.; Wang, G.; Wu, Q.; Xu, W.; Zheng, L. (December 18, 2014). "eRHIC Design Study: An Electron-Ion Collider at BNL". arXiv:1409.1633 [physics.acc-ph].
- "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org.
- "Four Brookhaven Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows". Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- "Past Recipients of the MERIT Award". Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. 25 September 2023.
- "Brookhaven Lab Physicist Ilan Ben-Zvi Named IEEE Fellow". Brookhaven National Laboratory.