Frontiers of Particle Beams; Observation, Diagnosis and Correction: Proceedings of a Topical Course Held by the Joint Us-Cern School on Particle Accel (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Accelerator physics as a profession.- Single particle motion.- Trajectory and closed orbit correction.- Transverse betatron tune measurements.- Theory of emittance invariants.- Methods of emittance measurement.- Coupled transverse motion.- Measurement of the longitudinal parameters of an electron beam in a storage ring.- Absolute luminosity and energy determination in bunched colliding-beam machines.- Polarization in large e+/e? storage rings.- Experimental study of resonances.- Experimental particle tracking.- Nonplanar machines.- An overview of collective effects in circular and linear accelerators.- Beam transfer function and Landau damping.- Wake fields measurements.- Cures for instabilities.- Physical phenomena used in beam observation.- Electromagnetic detectors.- Beam intercepting monitors.- Diagnostics with schottky noise.- Signal analysis.- Synchrotron radiation from magnetic undulators as a prospective diagnostic tool.- Monitoring in future e + e ? colliders.- The commissioning of accelerators.