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Contact Information
Tel : 972-8-9342083
Fax : 972-8-9344182
Bldg.:K.B. Weissman Institute of Physical Sciences
Rm.: 103
Email : zeev.zinamon@weizmann.ac.il
Secretariat:
Corinne Hasdai
Tel : 08-9343835
corinne.hasdai@weizmann.ac.il
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Zeev Zinnamon
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Professor Emerius
Department of Particle
Physics
Weizmann Institute,
76100 Rehovot,
Israel
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Current Research Interests
1. The physics of strongly coupled plasma.
A plasma is considered strongly coupled if the interaction
energy among
its constituents is not small compared with
their kinetic energy. We
study the properties of these plasmas, such as
the equation of state,
the diffusion processes, and the radiative opacity. Strongly coupled
plasmas occur in important phenomena: For
example, liquid metals can be
considered as such. A possibly important
application where strongly
coupled plasmas occur is inertial confinement
fusion - the production
of nuclear fusion energy through the
compression and heating of
hydrogen isotopes by intense radiation. We
study plasmas related to
both these examples.
2. The interaction of energetic charged
particles with matter.
We study the interaction of simple (ions) and
complex (clusters, large
molecules) energetic particles with matter. By
studying the energy
deposition and trajectories one can learn
about the dielectric
properties of the target matter and about the
structure of the
projectile particles. An example of our
studies is the application of
intense ion beams to the achievement of
inertial confinement fusion.
References:
Z. Zinamon and Y.
Rosenfeld, Electron correlation effects and the
equation of state of shocked
liquid deuterium, Phys. Rev. Lett.
81, 4668 (1998).
E. Nardi, Z. Zinamon, D. Riley, and N. C. Woolsey, X ray scattering
as a dense plasma diagnostic,
Phys. Rev. E 57, 4693 (1998).
E. Nardi and Z. Zinamon, Interaction of fast C60 clusters with a
Lindhard
gas, Phys. Rev. A 51, R3407 (1995).
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