Charged Particle Beam Physics: An Introduction for Physicists and Engineers

by Sarvesh Kumar, Manish K. Kashyap

Overview

This scientifically up-to-date book lays the foundation for modeling, designing and implementing accelerator device components, using modern approaches such as the transfer-matrix method and numerical simulation using beam optics codes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783527414048
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/13/2025
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sarvesh Kumar is Senior Scientist in the Beam Transport Laboratory at the Inter-University Accelerator Center in New Delhi, India. He has been working in the field of accelerator and plasma physics for his entire career, both on the fundamental aspects such as the design of beam transport lines as well as on the technological aspects such as building, installing and running charged particle beam components in large-scale accelerator facilities.

Manish K. Kashyap is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of Kurukshetra University, India. He has been teaching Electrodynamics and Plasma Physics courses for the past 12 years to graduate and postgraduate students, inspiring them to become the next generation of scientists.

Table of Contents

1 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
1.1 History of Accelerators
1.2 Units in Accelerator Physics
1.3 Common Components of Accelerators
1.4 Electrostatic Accelerators
1.5 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
1.6 Cyclotron
1.7 Synchroton
1.8 Betatron
1.9 Colliders
1.10 Synchrocyclotrons
1.11 Storage Rings
1.12 FFAG Accelerators
1.13 Wakefield Accelerators
2 BEAM OPTICS
2.1 Phase Space
2.2 Liouville's Theorem
2.3 Emittance and Brightness
2.4 Transfer Matrix
2.5 Transverse Beam Dynamics
2.6 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics
3 ION SOURCES
3.1 Plasma Physics
3.2 Negative Ion Source
3.3 ECR Ion Source
3.3 Microwave Ion Source
3.5 Laser Ion Source
3.6 Vacuum Arc Ion Source
3.7 High Current Gaseous Ion Source
4 MAGNETOSTATIC DEVICES
4.2 Solenoid Magnets
4.4 Dipole Magnets
4.4 Quadrupole Magnet
4.5 Sextupole Magnets
4.6 Scanner Magnets
4.7 Steerer Magnets
4.8 Wien Filter
4.9 Achromatic magnets
4.10 Undulators and Wigglers
5 ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES
5.1 Motion of a Charged Particle in an Electric Field
5.2 Electrostatic Gap Lens
5.3 Einzel Lens
5.4 Electrostatic Dipole
5.5 Electrostatic Quadrupole
5.6 Electrostatic Accelerating Tubes
6 RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES
6.1 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Radio frequency field
6.2 RF Gap
6.3 RF Buncher
6.4 RF Chopper
6.4 Multiharmonic Buncher
6.5 RF Accelerating Cavities
6.6 Radiofrequency Quadrupoles
6.7 Drift Tube Linacs
7 BEAM DIAGNOSTIC DEVICES
7.1 Faraday Cups
7.2 Beam Profile Monitors
7.3 Transverse Emittance Scanner
7.4 Longitudinal Emittance Scanner
8 APPLICATIONS OF ACCELERATORS
8.1 Nuclear Physics
8.2 Materials Sciences
8.3 Atomic Physics
8.4 Plasma Physics
8.5 Radiation Biology
8.6 Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy
8.7 High Energy Elementary Particle Physics Appendices
Solutions to Chapter Problems