edited by Herwig Schopper (CERN/Univ. Hamburg)

This volume, consisting of articles written by experts with international repute and long experience, reviews the state of the art of accelerator physics and technologies and the use of accelerators in research, industry and medicine. It covers a wide range of topics, from basic problems concerning the performance of circular and linear accelerators to technical issues and related fields. Also discussed are recent achievements that are of particular interest (such as RF quadrupole acceleration, ion sources and storage rings) and new technologies (such as superconductivity for magnets and RF cavities).

The book will interest not only researchers and engineers in the field of accelerator development but also users of accelerators in research and industry. Moreover, teachers giving courses on accelerators and their applications will profit by learning about the most recent achievements and future possibilities.

• Introduction:
  • What Can We Learn from Experiments with Accelerators and Storage Rings (C Jarlskog)
• Circular Accelerators and Storage Rings:
  • Beam Optics and Lattice Design (P J Bryant)
  • Collective Phenomena and Instabilities (J Gareyte)
  • The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC (H Foelsche et al.)
  • Beauty- and Tau-Charm Factories (Y Baconnier)
• Linear Accelerators:
  • General Aspects of Linear Accelerators (P Lapostolle)
  • RF Quadrupoles as Accelerators (A Schempp)
  • Accelerator Physics of the Stanford Linear Collider and SLC Accelerator Experiments Towards the Next Linear Collider (J T Seeman)
  • The Road to TeV Electron-Positron Colliders (Y Kimura)
• New Methods and Technologies:
  • Superconducting Magnets for Accelerators (G Brianti & T Tortschanoff)
  • Superconducting Cavities for High Energy Accelerators and Storage Rings (H Lengeler)
  • Cooling of Particle Beams (D Möhl)
  • Acceleration of Polarized Particles (J Buon)
  • Ion Sources (H Haseroth & H Hora)
  • A Good Idea at the Time (B W Montague)
  • Geodesy for Particle Acceleratos (J Gervais & M Mayoud)
• Applications:
  • Synchrotron Radiation Sources (S Tazzari)
  • The Impact of Pulsed Spallation Neutron Sources on Condensed Matter Research (J L Finney)
  • Inertial Fusion with Heavy Ions (I Hofmann)
  • High Energy Accelerators in Medicine (P Mandrillon)
  • Industrial Applications of Accelerators (K H W Bethge)