No. 18 (1998): Beam dynamics at various laboratories

Editors: K. Hirata, J.M. Jowett and S.Y. Lee

Once again, we have a newsletter packed with interesting and timely articles. It is very encouraging to see that the section devoted to announcements of recent doctoral theses contains no less than 5 items. I think we can fairly claim that this section has really caught on as a means for new entrants to the field to make their work known.

Another very welcome and valuable type of article is that calling attention to new, urgent or promising topics of research. In this issue Dimitri Petrikov introduces us to new phenomena arising from the combination of space-charge and beam-beam effects in electron-nucleon colliders. Of course, the newsletter is not a medium for publication of scientific results–that is the proper role of journals and conferences–but we hope that articles like this may help to catalyse new contacts and developments leading to future research publications.