An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators 1st Edition by D. A. Edwards (PDF)

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The first half deals with the motion of a single particle under the influence of electronic and magnetic fields. The basic language of linear and circular accelerators is developed. The principle of phase stability is introduced along with phase oscillations in linear accelerators and synchrotrons. Presents a treatment of betatron oscillations followed by an excursion into nonlinear dynamics and its application to accelerators. The second half discusses intensity dependent effects, particularly space charge and coherent instabilities. Includes tables of parameters for a selection of accelerators which are used in the numerous problems provided at the end of each chapter.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Publisher The first half deals with the motion of a single particle under the influence of electronic and magnetic fields. The basic language of linear and circular accelerators is developed. The principle of phase stability is introduced along with phase oscillations in linear accelerators and synchrotrons. Presents a treatment of betatron oscillations followed by an excursion into nonlinear dynamics and its application to accelerators. The second half discusses intensity dependent effects, particularly space charge and coherent instabilities. Includes tables of parameters for a selection of accelerators which are used in the numerous problems provided at the end of each chapter. About the Author The authors, D.A. Edwards and M.J. Syphers, are both with the SSC Laboratory, Dallas, Texas.

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⭐I’m an engineer who was given this book to learn the fundamentals of particle accelerators. The book claims it is accessible for anyone with an undergraduate education in physics or engineering. While it seemingly builds concepts from the ground up, it routinely treats non-trivial mathematical and physics concepts as givens and it’s very plausible many students would not have encountered these concepts before. I’m not talking about things most bachelor’s level engineers/physicists should know like the Taylor Series and integration by parts, I’m talking about exotic techniques like Legendre transforms and first integrals and precepts/notations from the calculus of variations, along with some loose probability techniques (for instance, this book represents time-averaged variance simply as E(x^2) when it is truly E(x^2) – (E(x))^2, unless E(x) disappears in the time average, which was not justified in the text). I routinely had to stop and look things up, and not in the normal way. When I read a textbook, I never expect to know everything in it (that would defeat the purpose), but when I encounter something new I don’t recognize, I can usually at least understand why it’s there or glean enough from the text to continue productively. In this book, it feels like the steps and progression of logic in the derivations are arbitrary much of the time, even though they obviously are not. And I have a PhD, so I’m no stranger to encountering tough scenarios I don’t understand right away. It also does not help that the text likes to re-use variable symbols. A notable example is that the book uses the symbol “psi” as a phasing term, but then uses psi again for a particle distribution function in a later chapter. This wouldn’t be that big a deal if it were not for the fact that the book often jumps around to previous equations where the original psi was used. While I can appreciate the potential issue of running out of symbols, I see this as somewhat of an oversight for someone concerned with teaching a novice in accelerator physics such as myself. Finally, and I think this is the biggest issue really, the entire book only has 15 references. For the amount of concepts it contains, I don’t find that particularly acceptable. Much of my criticism could probably be negated with proper referencing, as this would point to more in-depth treatments where more steps are taken to explain derivations so that the authors could stick with their level of explanation. But as it stands, I have to take the authors’ word or hope that the documents they did cite will lead to a better reference chain. It’s possible that there are few citations because the authors carried out the derivations independently, but I’m not sure I find that plausible.Now what this book does do very, very well is expose you to a lot of fundamental concepts very quickly. I read the book cover to cover in about a week, and while I don’t understand everything just yet, I have a great deal more knowledge now about accelerator physics than I did previously, so the book is by no means useless. For me, the book is best used as a guide for what should be investigated further as well as a reference for equations, as I have no reason to assume that most of the derived results are incorrect. If one wants to learn accelerator physics deeply however, I would highly recommend they supplement this book with additional materials (like the USPAS courses for instance).

⭐This book is a superb introduction to the field of acclereator physics. Starting with a basic knowledge of relativity and E&M is all that is necessary. Edwards and Syphers do a great job of “building” an accelerator in their book and using operating parameters of real world accelerators (mostly the Tevatron) for their numerical examples.My only complaint is that some of the problems could be worded more clearly and concisely

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