No. 27 (2002): Real Time Radiation Simulator and Analogies between Light Optics and Charged Particle Optics

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

This issue of the ICFA Beam Dynamics Newsletter includes a number of summary reports from the ICFA-HB2002 Workshop, held at Fermilab, USA, April 8–12, 2002. In addition to a general workshop report, this newsletter also includes reports from three working groups and several parallel sessions. Although the workshop proceedings are to be published, it will take 6 months or longer for them to appear. Furthermore, only the 150 participants at the workshop will receive a copy of the printed proceedings. In contrast, the Newsletter provides a convenient vehicle for rapid communications to the accelerator community on important subjects, such as that of the HB2002. It is the editor's opinion that we should explore this unique feature of the Newsletter in future issues so that reports from important workshops can be disseminated in a timely manner.

This issue also includes the reports from several other important workshops: the 24th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop (ABDW) on Future Light Sources, the Mini-Workshop on Coherent Synchrotron Radiation, and the Ecloud 2002 Mini-Workshop. Mini-workshops appear to be gaining in popularity. This is because they are easy to organize, have a small number of experts meeting together, and are well focused on specific problems. They have been proved to be efficient and productive. We look forward to receiving more mini-workshop reports for publication in this Newsletter.

There are two activity reports in this issue: one on a real time radiation simulator, another on the analogies between light optics and charge particle optics. We hope readers find them interesting. There are a number of announcements of upcoming workshops. The minutes of a recent ICFA Beam Dynamics Panel Meeting are also included.