No. 24 (2001): Beam dynamics at various laboratories

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

In this edition the activity reports of the high energy laboratories DESY and CERN describe upgrade programs for existing machines and future developments. The beam dynamics activities for synchrotron light sources and FEL’s are described by M. Böge, A. Streun, E. Karantzoulis and G. Dattoli et al. Furthermore, and this is a great pleasure for me, we have activity reports from university groups in Bologna, Rostock, and Albuquerque covering a wide range of problems from space charge, nonlinear collective phenomena, spin dynamics to computational aspects of beam dynamics in accelerators. One category of articles supported by the Beam Dynamics Newsletter is Review of Beam Dynamics Problems. M. Conte and his colleagues present a review of the Stern-Gerlach force, an interesting but also controversially discussed topic.