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REVIEWS OF ACCELERATOR SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
Volume 3: Accelerators as Photon Sources
edited by Alexander W Chao (SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory, USA) & Weiren Chou (Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory, USA)
300pp
978-981-4340-38-0: US$138 / £86 US$96.60
/ £60.20
Over the last half century we have witnessed tremendous
progress in the production of high-quality photons by electrons in
accelerators. This dramatic evolution has seen four generations of
accelerators as photon sources. The 1st generation used the electron
storage rings built primarily for high-energy physics experiments, and
the synchrotron radiation from the bending magnets was used
parasitically. The 2nd generation involved rings dedicated to
synchrotron radiation applications, with the radiation again from the
bending magnets. The 3rd generation, currently the workhorse of these
photon sources, is dedicated advanced storage rings that employ not
only bending magnets but also insertion devices (wigglers and
undulators) as the source of the radiation. The 4th generation, which
is now entering operation, is photon sources based on the free electron
laser (FEL), an invention made in the early 1970s.
Each generation yielded growths in brightness and time
resolution that were unimaginable just a few years earlier. In
particular, the progression from the 3rd to 4th generation is a true
revolution; the peak brilliance of coherent soft and hard x-rays has
increased by 7-10 orders of magnitude, and the image resolution has
reached the angstrom (1 Å= 10-10 meters) and femto-second (1
fs = 10-15 second) scales. These impressive capabilities
have fostered fundamental scientific advances and led to an explosion
of numerous possibilities in many important research areas including
material science, chemistry, molecular biology and the life sciences.
Even more remarkably, this field of photon source invention and
development shows no signs of slowing down. Studies have already been
started on the next generation of x-ray sources, which would have a
time resolution in the atto-second (1 as = 10-18 second)
regime, comparable to the time of electron motion inside atoms. It can
be fully expected that these photon sources will stand out among the
most powerful future science research tools. The physics community as
well as the entire scientific community will hear of many pioneering
and groundbreaking research results using these sources in the coming
years.
This volume contains fifteen articles, all written by leading
scientists in their respective fields. It is aimed at the designers,
builders and users of accelerator-based photon sources as well as
general audience who are interested in this topic.
Contents:
- Invention of the Free Electron Laser (J M J
Madey)
- Photon Science at Accelerator-Based Light
Sources (J R Schneider)
- Electromagnetic Radiation in Accelerator
Physics (G Stupakov)
- Storage Ring Light Sources (Z T Zhao)
- Low-Gain Free Electron Lasers (N Vinokurov)
- Soft and Hard X-Ray SASE Free Electron Lasers (S
Schreiber)
- Energy Recovery Linacs for Light Sources (R
Hajima)
- Compton Sources of Electromagnetic Radiation (G
A Krafft & G Priebe)
- Accelerator-Based Sources of Infrared and
Terahertz Radiation (A-S M¨¹ller)
- The Next Generation of X-Ray Sources (C
Pellegrini)
- Undulators and Other Insertion Devices (E
Levichev & N Vinokurov)
- High Performance Electron Injectors (M
Ferrario & T Shintake)
- Electron-Beam-Based Sources of Ultra-Short
X-Ray Pulses (A Zholents)
- The Large Hadron Collider from Conception to
Commissioning: A Personal Recollection (L Evans)
- G I Budker: Brilliant Physicist, Great
Scientific Leader (A N Skrinsky)
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