Principles of charged particle acceleration

Stanley Humphries9780471878780, 0-471-87878-2

An introductory text on the physics of charged particle acceleration and transport. Equal emphasis is given to low energy and high energy accelerators, so that the material is relevant to a wide variety of applications. Treats finite difference methods and analog methods and shows how to use analytic methods to solve Laplace’s Equations. Provides a detailed discussion of the role of ferromagnetic materials in accelerators, and a review of ferromagnetic materials and permanent magnets. Offers a unique review of high voltage phenomena and pulsed power circuits – vacuum breakdown, Marx generators, transmission lines, pulse forming networks and pulsed beam diagnostics. It’s also the only text to present material on linear induction accelerator.