This book by Helmut Wiedemann is a well-established, classic text,
providing an in-depth and comprehensive introduction to the field of
high-energy particle acceleration and beam dynamics.
The present 4th edition has been significantly revised, updated and
expanded. The newly conceived Part I is an elementary introduction to
the subject matter for undergraduate students. Part II gathers the basic
tools in preparation of a more advanced treatment, summarizing the
essentials of electrostatics and electrodynamics as well as of particle
dynamics in electromagnetic fields. Part III is an extensive primer in
beam dynamics, followed, in Part IV, by an introduction and description
of the main beam parameters and including a new chapter on beam
emittance and lattice design. Part V is devoted to the treatment of
perturbations in beam dynamics. Part VI then discusses the details of
charged particle acceleration. Parts VII and VIII introduce the more
advanced topics of coupled beam dynamics and describe very intense
beams - a number of additional beam instabilities are introduced and
reviewed in this new edition. Part IX is an exhaustive treatment of
radiation from accelerated charges and introduces important sources of
coherent radiation such as synchrotrons and free-electron lasers. The
appendices at the end of the book gather useful mathematical and
physical formulae, parameters and units. Solutions to many
end-of-chapter problems are given.
This textbook is suitable for an intensive two-semester course starting
at the senior undergraduate level.
