Edited by internationally recognized authorities in
the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the
bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new
articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern
particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum
for professional engineers and physicists engaged in
these subjects. With a collection of more than 2000
equations, 300 illustrations and 500 graphs and tables,
here one will find, in addition to the common formulae
of previous compilations, hard-to-find, specialized
formulae, recipes and material data pooled from the
lifetime experience of many of the world's most able
practitioners of the art and science of accelerators.
The eight chapters include both theoretical and
practical matters as well as an extensive glossary of
accelerator types. Chapters on beam dynamics and
electromagnetic and nuclear interactions deal with
linear and nonlinear single particle and collective
effects including spin motion, beam-environment,
beam-beam, beam-electron, beam-ion and intrabeam
interactions. The impedance concept and related
calculations are dealt with at length as are the
instabilities associated with the various interactions
mentioned. A chapter on operational considerations
includes discussions on the assessment and correction of
orbit and optics errors, real-time feedbacks, generation
of short photon pulses, bunch compression, tuning of
normal and superconducting linacs, energy recovery
linacs, free electron lasers, cooling, space-charge
compensation, brightness of light sources, collider
luminosity optimization and collision schemes. Chapters
on mechanical and electrical considerations present
material data and important aspects of component design
including heat transfer and refrigeration. Hardware
systems for particle sources, feedback systems,
confinement and acceleration (both normal conducting and
superconducting) receive detailed treatment in a
subsystems chapter, beam measurement techniques and
apparatus being treated therein as well. The closing
chapter gives data and methods for radiation protection
computations as well as much data on radiation damage to
various materials and devices. A detailed name and
subject index is provided together with reliable
references to the literature where the most detailed
information available on all subjects treated can be
found.
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