SPECIAL TOPICS IN ACCELERATOR PHYSICS

Accelerators as research and industrial tools are increasingly becoming a key driver of the advances of a modern society. As accelerators and its science evolved to meet the ever-increasing needs of society, the field of accelerator physics has evolved and deepened over the past few decades, and many of its branches developed into special topics of research by their own rights. It is appropriate at this time to start accumulating this hard-earned expertise by the accelerator physics community. With this view, a selection of these special topics is presented in this volume, Special Topics in Accelerator Physics. Although not exhaustive, they are chosen to present accelerator physics as a diversified and exciting field and written based on the practicing and teaching experiences of the author accumulated over the past decades. The book is presented as an advanced textbook. The material on each topic has been intended to be self-contained. The reader is assumed to have a basic knowledge of accelerator physics to put the material in some context.

Contents:
PrefaceThe Fokker–Planck EquationSymplectification of MapsTruncated Power Series AlgebraLie AlgebraSpin Dynamics of ProtonSpin Dynamics of ElectronEchoBeam-Beam InteractionSubject Index
Readership: Accelerator, high-energy, nuclear, plasma and applied physicists.

'This book Selected Topics in Accelerator Physics by Alexander W Chao contains an excellent, in-depth discussion of many critical topics in the physics of charged particle beams in accelerators that have been identified and developed over the last several decades. The author is internationally admired as a distinguished contributor to this knowledge base and, together with Prof. Maury Tigner of Cornell, is the editor of the famous Handbook of Accelerator Physics. The encyclopedic breadth of the material that is covered, in combination with his pedagogical mastership in presenting the material, makes this book a clear and obvious choice for physicists of all levels of experience in developing and using accelerators for fundamental research and for other applications.' - Yaroslav DerbenevJefferson Laboratory, USA