An Introduction to Particle Accelerators

There are more than ten thousand particle accelerators in the world from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. Many scientists and engineers spend their lives designing, constructing, and operating these machines - yet few universities include the subject of particle accelerators in their curricula. The few courses that do exist and the summer schools run by the big accelerator laboratories lack a simple introduction which covers the essentials of the subject for the many who need to learn how these machines work. This book fills that gap and takes the reader through each of the aspects of a modern accelerator giving enough information to unlock the door to the subject but does not overload the understanding with mathematics. Anyone with a general interest in modern technology based on a fascinating variety of physics and engineering will find much of interest in this book.

ISBN 0198508298   Pages 266 ISBN13 9780198508298 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 402 Imprint Clarendon Press   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 31 May 2001   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2001018540   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 539.73   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC21

1		History of accelerators		1
2		Transverse motion		22
3		Lattices		32
4		Circulating beams		45
5		Longitudinal dynamics		58
6		Imperfections and multipoles		74
7		Non-linearities and resonances		94
8		Electrons		111
9		Space charge and instabilities		124
10		Radiofrequency cavities		138
11		Colliders		159
12		Cooling		172
13		Applications of accelerators		185
14		The future		208
		Appendix		221
		Answers to exercises		224
		References		242
		Index		249

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