by K Y Ng, World Scientific. Hardback ISBN 9812563423, £52 ($86).
This book comprehensively covers intensity-dependent particle-beam instabilities in accelerating rings. It briefly reviews the concept of wake potentials and coupling impedances in the vacuum chamber, and then discusses static and dynamic solutions to their effects on particle beams. It separately emphasizes proton and electron machines. Other topics include Landau damping, Balakin–Novokhatsky–Smirnov damping, Sacherer’s integral equations, saw-tooth instability, Robinson stability criteria, beam loading, transition crossing and collective instability issues of isochronous rings. It provides a thorough description of experimental observations and discusses cures for the instabilities.
