by Jack T Tanabe, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 981256327X, £29 ($48). Paperback ISBN 9812563814, £17 ($28).
Written by one of the foremost specialists, this book is devoted to the design of low and medium field electromagnets, the field level and quality (uniformity) of which are dominated by the pole-shape and saturation characteristics of the iron yoke. Iron Dominated Electromagnets covers a wide scope of material ranging from the physical requirements for typical high-performance accelerators, through the mathematical relationships that describe the shape of two-dimensional magnetic fields, to the mechanical fabrication, assembly, installation and alignment of magnets in a typical accelerator lattice. Derived from lecture notes used in a course at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, it is a useful resource for students planning to enter high-energy physics, as well as those already working with particle accelerators.
