The Electric Image

' This book provides a comprehensive treatment of intensity dependent particle beam instabilities in accelerating rings. Written for researchers, the material is also suitable for use as a textbook in an advanced graduate course for students studying accelerator physics. The presentation starts with a brief review of the basic concept of wake potentials and coupling impedances in the vacuum chamber followed by a discussion on static and dynamic solutions of their effects on the particle beams. Special emphasis is placed separately on proton and electron machines. Other special topics of interest covered include Landau damping, Balakin–Novokhatsky–Smirnov damping, Sacherer's integral equations, Landau cavity, saw-tooth instability, Robinson stability criteria, beam loading, transition crossing, two-stream instabilities, and collective instability issues of isochronous rings. After the formulation of an instability, readers are provided a thorough description of one or more experimental observations together with a discussion of the cures for the instability. Although the book is theory oriented, the use of mathematics has been minimized. The presentation is intended to be rigorous and self-contained with nearly all the formulas and equations derived. Errata(s) Errata Contents:Wakes and ImpedancesPotential-Well DistortionBetatron Tune ShiftsEnvelope EquationLongitudinal Microwave Instability for Coasting BeamsLongitudinal Microwave Instability for Short BunchesBeam Loading and Robinson's InstabilityLongitudinal Coupled-Bunch InstabilitiesTransverse InstabilitiesTransverse Coupled-Bunch InstabilitiesMode Coupling InstabilitiesHead-Tail InstabilitiesLandau DampingBeam BreakupTwo-Stream InstabilitiesInstabilities Near and Across Transition Readership: Researchers in accelerator physics. Also suitable for use as a textbook in a graduate course. Keywords:Beam Physics;Collective Instabilities;Wake Fields;Impedances;Single-Bunch Instabilities;Coupled-Bunch Instabilities;Head-Tail Instabilities;Two-Stream InstabilitiesKey Features:One of the few books on accelerator physics that gives a comprehensive presentation of the commonly seen intensity dependent beam instabilities in acceleratorsIncludes new collective beam instabilities and new diagnostics and cures discovered in recent yearsIn-depth coverage and discussion of many experiments on collective beam instabilities, including observations and curesUnique treatment and interpretation of potential-well distortion compensation, BNS damping in beam breakup, simulations in transition crossing, and other issuesReviews: “The use of mathematics in the monograph is minimized, the main attention is paid to physical sense and numerical modelling. The aim of the monograph is to provide a comprehensive treatment of intensity dependent particle beam instabilities in accelerating rings.” Zentralblatt MATH '