By Alexander W Chao and Weiren Chou (eds)
World Scientific
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As particle accelerators strive for ever-increasing performance, high-intensity particle beams are becoming one of the critical demands from a majority of users – whether for proton, electron or ion beams – and for most applications. The accelerator community has therefore put a great deal of effort into the pursuit of high-intensity accelerator performance, on a number of fronts. Recognizing the topic’s importance, the editors have dedicated this volume of Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology to accelerators for high-intensity beams. As well as reviews of applications at the intensity frontier in particle and nuclear physics, this volume also looks at applications, for example, in radiography and the production of radiopharmaceuticals, as well as in accelerator-driven systems and the inertial production of fusion energy. Other chapters deal with different types of accelerator, such as superconducting hadron linacs and rapid-cycling synchrotrons, and accumulator rings for high-intensity hadron beams. Key accelerator subsystems that allow high-intensity operation are also covered, with chapters on ion injectors, ion charge-strippers, targets and secondary beams, neutron-beam lines and beam-material interactions. The final chapter follows the journal’s tradition of looking at people who have shaped the field. This time, Giorgio Brianti and David Plane contribute their personal recollections about John Adams, who made so many pioneering contributions to CERN’s unrivalled accelerator complex. In particular, it outlines Adams’s abilities as an international collaboration leader.
