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Ali Belkacem
Senior Staff Scientist

 
Staff

Chemical Sciences Division Deputy
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Program Leader

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
One Cyclotron Road, BLDG 2R0300
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA

Location: Bldg. 2, Room 311
Telephone:   (510) 486-7778
Fax:   (510) 486-7779
Email:   ABelkacem@lbl.gov

Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences Program


 

Education

1986: Doctorat D'Etat es-Sciences de Physics, Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Interaction of Ultrarelativistic Electrons, Positrons and Photons with Aligned Crystals, University Lyon I, France

1983: Doctorat 3ieme Cycle, Theoretical Spectroscopy of Diatoms, University Lyon I, France

1981: Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (M. Sc.), University Lyon I

1975-1979: Maitrise de Physique (B. Sc.), University of Algiers, Algeria

Professional Experience

Senior Staff Scientist, Group Leader, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Sciences, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1989-present). Postdoctoral Fellow, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory (1987-89).

Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de la Physique des Particules, France (1986-1987).

Recent Professional Service

Member of on-site DOE program review, AMO Sciences, Kansas State University, 1998 and 1995.

Chairman, Computer and Communications Advisory Committee, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Member of LBNL Chemical Sciences Divisional Council.

Research Interests

Investigation of relativistic phenomena in atomic collisions, including relativistic effects in photoionization, electron transfer, and pair production. Investigation of coherence phenomena in electromagnetic conversion processes at high energies. Modification of Structure and Dynamics of atoms and molecules evolving in strong, transient fields.


Relevant Publications

A. Belkacem, A. Sorensen, and D. Ionescu, "Ionization and pair creation for relativistic ion and photon impact on atoms," Physics Report, (to be published).

D.C. Ionescu, A. Sorensen, and A. Belkacem, "Inner-shell photoionization at relativistic energies," Phys. Rev. A 59, 3527, 1999.

D.C. Ionescu and A. Belkacem, "Relativistic Collisions of highly-charged Ions", Physica Scripta 80, 128, 1999.

A. Belkacem, N. Claytor, T. Dinneen, B. Feinberg, and H. Gould, "Electron capture from pair production by Ay79+ at 10.8 GeV/n", Phys. Rev. A 58, 1253, 1998.

A. Belkacem and A. Sorensen, "Bound-free heavy-lepton pair production for photon impact on atomic nuclei", Phys. Rev. A 57, 3646, 1998.

A. Belkacem, H. Gould, R. Bossingham and W. Meyerhof, "Capture, ionization, and pair production processes in relativistic heavy ion collisions in the 1-GeV/n energy range", Phys. Rev. A 56, 2806, 1997.

N. Claytor, A. Belkacem, T. Dinneen, B. Feinberg, and H. Gould, "Ionization and capture of Au78+ at 10.8 GeV/n", Phys. Rev. A 55, 842, 1997.

K. Momberger, A. Belkacem, A. Belkacem, "Numerical treatment of the time-dependent Dirac equation in momentum space for atomic processes", Phys. Rev. A 53, 1605, 1996.

A. Belkacem, H. Gould, B. Feinberg, R. Bossingham, and W. Meyerhof, "Projectile energy and atomic number dependence of electron capture from pair production", Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2432, 1994.

A. Belkacem, H. Gould, B. Feinberg, R. Bossingham, and W. Meyerhof, "Measurement of electron capture from electron-positron pair production", Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1514, 1993.

D. Zajfman, A. Belkacem, T. Graber, E. Kanter, R. Mitchell, R. Naaman, Z. Vager, and B. Zabransky, "Measurement of the distribution of bond angles in H2O+", J. Chem. Phys. 94, 2543, 1991.

J. Schweppe, A. Belkacem, L. Blumenfeld, N. Claytor, B. Feinberg, H. Gould, V. Kostroun, L. Levy, S. Misawa, J. Mowat, and M. prior, "Measurement of the Lamb shift in Lithiumlike Uranium", Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 1434, 1991.