Penetration of particles through matter, electromagnetic processes, physics of interphase phenomena

1983 – Defended PhD thesis in Nuclear Physics Institute of Moscow State University (speciality – Physics of Atomic Nuclei and Elementary Particles);
1993 – Defended a doctor dissertation (speciality – Physics of Condensed Matter);
from 1983 up today heads a Theoretical Physics Department in Kabardino-Balkarian State University.

Worked in Aarhus University (Denmark) – 1988–1989 and in Tokyo Gakugei University (Japan) – 2000–2001. Participates in NA43 collaboration in CERN.

1. M.Kh. Khokonov, H. Nitta, “A Standard Radiation Spectrum of Relativistic Electrons: Beyond Synchrotron Approximation”, Physical Review Letters, 89:9 (2002), 094801-4    
2. H. Nitta, M.Kh. Khokonov, Y. Nagata, S. Onuki, “Electron-positron pair production by photons in nonuniform strong fields”, Physical Review Letters, 93:18 (2004), 180407-4    
3. Khokonov M.Kh., “Saddle Point Method in the Radiation Problem”, Physica Scripta, 55:5 (1997), 513–519    
4. Khokonov M.Kh., “Kaskadnye protsessy poter energii na izluchenie zhestkikh fotonov”, Zhurnal eksperimentalnoi i teoreticheskoi fiziki, 126:4 (2004), 799–818
5. Khokonov M.Kh., “On the theory of electromagnetic cascades in thin targets and photon multiplicity measurements”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 344 (2015), 1–4    

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