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Reviews of accelerator science and technology. Volume 1 /

Particle accelerators are a major invention of the 20th century. In the last eight decades, they have evolved enormously and have fundamentally changed the way we live, think and work. Accelerators are the most powerful microscopes for viewing the tiniest inner structure of cells, genes, molecules,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chao, Alexander Wu, Chou, Weiren
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sinagapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early milestones in the evolution of accelerators / E.D. Courant
  • Electron linacs for high energy physics / Perry B. Wilson
  • The development of high power hadron accelerators / G.H. Rees
  • Cyclotrons and fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerators / M.K. Craddock and K.R. Symon
  • Particle colliders for high energy physics / D.A. Edwards and H.T. Edwards
  • Synchrotron radiation / A. Hofmann
  • Medical applications of accelerators / Hartmut Eickhoff and Ute Linz
  • Industrial accelerators / Robert W. Hamm
  • The development of superconducting magnets for use in particle accelerators : from the tevatron to the LHC / Alvin Tollestrup and Ezio Todesco
  • Development of superconducting RF technology / Takaaki Furuya
  • Cooling methods for charged particle beams / V.V. Parkhomchuk and A.N. Skrinsky
  • The supercollider : the pre-Texas days
  • a personal recollection of its birth and Berkeley years / Stanley Wojcicki
  • Accelerators and the accelerator community / Andrew Sessler and Ernest Malamud
  • Book review : Panofsky on physics, politics, and peace : Pief remembers / Gregory Loew
  • A brief history of particle accelerators (poster).