No. 20 (1999): High Intensity High Brightness Hadron Beams

Editors-in-Chief: K. Hirata and J.M. Jowett, Editors: W. Chou, S. Ivanov, H. Mais, J. Wei, D.H. Whittum, and C. Zhang

This issue of the Newsletter is the first to be prepared under a new editorial scheme. Readers will have noticed that the list of editors on our cover page is much longer than it used to be. In the old scheme each of the three editors was principally responsible for one issue per year. The larger team will now take it in turn to be principal editors of an issue. The idea behind this is not merely to distribute the (entirely voluntary) workload over more members of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel. Rather, we hope that it will imbue the Newsletter with their individual ideas and approaches and provide more varied reading. The grandly titled “Editors-in-Chief” will coordinate and maintain continuity.

The present Newsletter gives every indication that this arrangement will produce the goods. Weiren Chou, the principal editor of this issue, has produced a Newsletter with a large section de- voted to the theme of high-intensity, high-brightness hadron beams. As one of the most active researchers in this field, he is in an excellent position to compile a comprehensive survey of activities from contacts world-wide. The regular Newsletter features continue to be present and, of course, your contributions—activity reports, letters to the editors, announcements of beam dynamics events and so on—are welcome for future issues. We hope that all members of the beam dynamics community will feel they can contact their nearest Panel Member and propose a contribution.