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New Edition: Accelerator Physics (4th Edition)
Research and development of high energy accelerators began in 1911. Since then, milestones achieved are:
- development of high gradient dc and rf accelerators,
- achievement of high field magnets with excellent field quality,
- discovery of transverse and longitudinal beam focusing principles,
- invention of high power rf sources,
- improvement of ultra-high vacuum technology,
- attainment of high brightness (polarized/unpolarized) electron/ionsources,
- advancement of beam dynamics and beam manipulation schemes, such as beam injection, accumulation, slow and fast extraction, beam damping and beam cooling, instability feedback, laser-beam interaction and harvesting instability for high brilliance coherent photon source.
The impacts of the accelerator development are evidenced by the many ground-breaking discoveries in particle and nuclear physics, atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, biology, biomedical physics, nuclear medicine, medical therapy, and industrial processing. This book is intended to be used as a graduate or senior undergraduate textbook in accelerator physics and science. It can be used as preparatory course material in graduate accelerator physics thesis research. The text covers historical accelerator development, transverse betatron motion, synchrotron motion, an introduction to linear accelerators, and synchrotron radiation phenomena in low emittance electron storage rings, introduction to special topics such as the free electron laser and the beam-beam interaction. Attention is paid to derivation of the action-angle variables of the phase space, because the transformation is important for understanding advanced topics such as the collective instability and nonlinear beam dynamics. Each section is followed by exercises, which are designed to reinforce concepts and to solve realistic accelerator design problems.
Sample Chapter(s)
Table of Contents (361 KB)
Chapter 1: Introduction (825 KB)
- Introduction:
- Historical Developments
- Layout and Components of Accelerators
- Accelerator Applications
- Transverse Motion:
- Hamiltonian for Particle Motion in Accelerators
- Linear Betatron Motion
- Effect of Linear Magnet Imperfections
- Off-Momentum Orbit
- Chromatic Aberration
- Linear Coupling
- Nonlinear Resonances
- Collective Instability and Landau Damping
- Synchro-Betatron Hamiltonian
- Synchrotron Motion:
- Longitudinal Equation of Motion
- Adiabatic Synchrotron Motion
- RF Phase and Voltage Modulations
- Nonadiabatic and Nonlinear Synchrotron Motion
- Beam Manipulation in Synchrotron Phase Space
- Fundamentals of RF Systems
- Longitudinal Collective Instabilities
- Introduction to Linear Accelerators
- Physics of Electron Storage Rings:
- Fields of a Moving Charged Particle
- Radiation Damping and Excitation
- Emittance in Electron Storage Rings
- Special Topics in Beam Physics:
- Free Electron Laser (FEL)
- Beam-Beam Interaction
- Classical Mechanics and Analysis:
- Hamiltonian Dynamics
- Stochastic Beam Dynamics
- Model Independent Analysis
- Numerical Methods and Physical Constants:
- Fourier Transform
- Cauchy Theorem and the Dispersion Relation
- Useful Handy Formulas
- Maxwell's Equations
- Physical Properties and Constants
