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Michael A. Coplan

Professor and Director, Chemical Physics Program
Space Plasma Physics

Professor Coplan's principal current research interests are: a) experimental studies of electron impact double ionization using a multiple detector triple coincidence spectrometer b) correlation of solar wind plasma parameters using data from instruments on the WIND and SoHO spacecraft and c) measurements of ion flux in the night-time polar cusp with a high time resolution magnetic spectrograph.

Selected publications:

1. (e,3e) observation of the angular correlation between ejected and Auger electrons in the double ionization of magnesium, with M. J. Ford, J.P. Doering, J.W. Cooper, J.H. Moore, Phys. Rev. A 51, 418 (1995).
2. Partitioning of momentum in electron-impact double ionization of magnesium, with M.J. Ford, J.H. Moore, J.W. Cooper, J.P. Doering, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2650 (1996).
3. Electron-impact double ionization of magnesium, with M.J. Ford, B. El Marji, J.P. Doering, J.H. Moore, J.W. Cooper, Phys. Rev. A 57, 325 (1998).
4. Sodium near the tail of comet Giacobini-Zinner, with K.W. Ogilvie, Icarus 143, 249-252 (1998).