A practical introduction to beam physics and particle accelerators /
Santiago Bernal.
- Third edition.
- 1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).
- [IOP release $release] IOP ebooks. [2022 collection] .
- IOP (Series). Release 22. IOP ebooks. 2022 collection. .
"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Rays, matrices, and transfer maps -- 1.1. Paraxial approximation -- 1.2. Thin lenses -- 1.3. Thick lenses -- 1.4. Transfer maps -- 1.5. Computer resources 2. Linear magnetic lenses and deflectors -- 2.1. Magnetic rigidity, momentum, and cyclotron frequency -- 2.2. Solenoid focusing -- 2.3. Quadrupole focusing -- 2.4. The Kerst-Serber equations and weak focusing -- 2.5. Dipoles and edge focusing -- 2.6. Computer resources 3. Periodic lattices and functions -- 3.1. Solenoid lattice -- 3.2. FODO lattice -- 3.3. Lattice and beam functions -- 3.4. Uniform-focusing ('smooth') approximation -- 3.5. Linear dispersion -- 3.6. Momentum compaction, transition gamma, and chromaticity -- 3.7. Computer resources 4. Emittance and space charge -- 4.1. Liouville's theorem and emittance -- 4.2. The Kapchinskij-Vladimirskij (K-V) and thermal distributions -- 4.3. Thermodynamics of charged-particle beams? -- 4.4. The K-V envelope equations and space-charge (SC) intensity parameters -- 4.5. Incoherent space-charge (SC) betatron tune shift -- 4.6. Coherent tune shift and Laslett coefficients -- 4.7. Computer resources 5. Beam (sigma) matrix and coupled optics -- 5.1. Solenoid focusing revisited -- 5.2. Skew quadrupole -- 5.3. Beam (sigma) matrix -- 5.4. Coupled optics -- 5.5. Angular momentum and the envelope equation in solenoid -- 5.6. Round-to-flat (RTF) and flat-to-round (FTR) beam adapters -- 5.7. Computer resources 6. Longitudinal beam dynamics and radiation -- 6.1. Radio-frequency (RF) linacs -- 6.2. Beam bunch stability and RF buckets -- 6.3. Synchrotron radiation -- 6.4. Insertion devices and free-electron lasers (FELs) -- 6.5. Longitudinal beam emittance and space charge -- 6.6. Computer resources 7. Envelope matching, resonances, and dispersion -- 7.1. Cell envelope FODO matching -- 7.2. Source-to-cell envelope matching -- 7.3. Betatron resonances -- 7.4. Betatron resonances and space charge -- 7.5. Dispersion and space charge -- 7.6. Computer resources 8. Linacs and rings (examples), closed orbit, and beam cooling -- 8.1. Examples of linacs -- 8.2. Examples of rings -- 8.3. Closed orbit and correction -- 8.4. Beam cooling -- 8.5. Computer resources 9. Small machines and scaled experiments -- 9.1. The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER) : a storage ring for space-charge research -- 9.2. Small Isochronous Ring (SIR) : space-charge effects in the isochronous regime -- 9.3. Integrable optics and other physics in IOTA -- 9.4. Fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators (FFAGs) : lessons from EMMA -- 9.5. Beam stability and betatron resonances : Paul traps as model accelerators -- 9.6. Computer resources -- Appendix A. Computer resources and their use -- Appendix B. Accelerator magnets.
This book provides a brief exposition of the principles of beam physics and particle accelerators with an emphasis on numerical examples employing readily available computer tools.
Physics and engineering graduate and senior undergraduate students and instructors in accelerator/beam physics.
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Santiago Bernal has been a research scientist for over 20 years at the University of Maryland working in experimental and computational accelerator and beam physics.