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  • Measurement and control of charged particle beams
    Vol. 1 (2003)

    Authors: Michiko G. Minty and Frank Zimmermann

    Publisher: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

    Copyright: The Authors 2003, License: CC-BY

    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-08581-3

     

    This advanced textbook and reference is the first comprehensive and systematic review of all methods used for the measurement, correction, and control of the beam dynamics of modern particle accelerators. Based on material presented in several lectures at the US Particle Accelerator School, the text is intended for graduate students starting research or work in the field of beam physics. Relativistic beams in linear accelerators and storage rings provide the focus. After a review of linear optics, the text addresses basic and advanced techniques for beam control, plus a variety of methods for the manipulation of particle-beam properties. In each case, specific procedures are illustrated by examples from operational accelerators, e.g., CERN, DESY, SLAC, KEK, LBNL, and FNAL. The book also treats special topics such as injection and extraction methods, beam cooling, spin transport, and polarization. Problems and solutions enhance the book’s usefulness in graduate courses.

  • Particle accelerator physics
    Vol. 1 (2015)

    Author: Helmut Wiedemann

    Publisher: Springer, Cham

    Copyright: The auhor 2015, corrected publication 2019,

    License: CC-BY

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18317-6

    This book by Helmut Wiedemann is a well-established, classic text, providing an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics.

    The present 4th edition has been significantly revised, updated and expanded. The newly conceived Part I is an elementary introduction to the subject matter for undergraduate students. Part II gathers the basic tools in preparation of a more advanced treatment, summarizing the essentials of electrostatics and electrodynamics as well as of particle dynamics in electromagnetic fields. Part III is an extensive primer in beam dynamics, followed, in Part IV, by an introduction and description of the main beam parameters and including a new chapter on beam emittance and lattice design. Part V is devoted to the treatment of perturbations in beam dynamics. Part VI then discusses the details of charged particle acceleration. Parts VII and VIII introduce the more advanced topics of coupled beam dynamics and describe very intense beams – a number of additional beam instabilities are introduced and reviewed in this new edition. Part IX is an exhaustive treatment of radiation from accelerated charges and introduces important sources of coherent radiation such as synchrotrons and free-electron lasers. The appendices at the end of the book gather useful mathematical and physical formulae, parameters and units. Solutions to many end-of-chapter problems are given.

    This textbook is suitable for an intensive two-semester course starting at the senior undergraduate level.

  • 60 years of CERN experiments and discoveries
    Vol. 2 (2015)

    Eds.:Herwig Schopper and Luigi Di Lella

    Publisher: World Scientific

    Copyright: The Authors, License: CC-BY-4.0

    DOI:  https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9441

    The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN - from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. Covering the results from the early accelerators at CERN to those most recent at the LHC, the contents provide an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. Not only presented is the impressive scientific progress achieved during the past six decades, but also demonstrated is the special way in which successful international collaboration exists at CERN.

  • Melting hadrons, boiling quarks: from Hagedorn temperature to ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at CERN—with a tribute to Rolf Hagedorn
    Vol. 1 (2016)

    Ed.: Johann Rafelski

    Publisher: Springer

    Copyright: The Editor and the Author(s) 2016

    License: CC BY-NC

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17545-4

    This book shows how the study of multi-hadron production phenomena in the years after the founding of CERN culminated in Hagedorn's pioneering idea of limiting temperature, leading on to the discovery of the quark-gluon plasma—announced, in February 2000 at CERN.

    Following the foreword by Herwig Schopper—the Director General (1981-1988) of CERN at the key historical juncture —the first part is a tribute to Rolf Hagedorn (1919-2003) and includes contributions by contemporary friends and colleagues, and those who were most touched by Hagedorn: Tamás Biró, Igor Dremin, Torleif Ericson, Marek Gaździcki, Mark Gorenstein, Hans Gutbrod, Maurice Jacob, István Montvay, Berndt Müller, Grazyna Odyniec, Emanuele Quercigh, Krzysztof Redlich, Helmut Satz, Luigi Sertorio, Ludwik Turko, and Gabriele Veneziano.

    The second and third parts retrace 20 years of developments that after discovery of the Hagedorn temperature in 1964 led to its recognition as the melting point of hadrons into boiling quarks, and to the rise of the experimental relativistic heavy ion collision program. These parts contain previously unpublished material authored by Hagedorn and Rafelski: conference retrospectives, research notes, workshop reports, in some instances abbreviated to avoid duplication of material, and rounded off with the editor's explanatory notes.

  • The standard theory of particle physics: essays to celebrate CERN's 60th anniversary
    Vol. 2 (2016)

    Eds.: Luciano Maiani and Luigi Rolandi

    Publisher: World Scientific

    Copyright: Authors of individual chapters

    License: CC BY-NC-4.0

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/9878

    The book gives a quite complete and up-to-date picture of the Standard Theory with an historical perspective, with a collection of articles written by some of the protagonists of present particle physics. The theoretical developments are described together with the most up-to-date experimental tests, including the discovery of the Higgs Boson and the measurement of its mass as well as the most precise measurements of the top mass, giving the reader a complete description of our present understanding of particle physics.