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Accelerator Physics, 3rd edn., by S.Y. Lee
Article in Contemporary Physics · September 2012
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2012.720605
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Accelerator Physics, 3rd edition
S.Y. Lee
World Scientific Press 2012
533 pages
softcover
ISBN 9879814374941
textbook
graduate students
Dr. Manuel Vogel, TU Darmstadt and GSI Darmstadt, m.vogel@gsi.de
Accelerator physics predominantly studies the interaction of electromagnetic fields with charged
particles, typically in beams at high energies. Consequently, main research topics in accelerator
science include the generation of suited fields for acceleration and guidance of beams, ion source
technology, beam dynamics, beam diagnostics, material science, plasma physics, and many more.
Apart from the obvious application of accelerator technology to high energy physics, particle physics
and nuclear physics, modern applications also comprise industrial processing, biomedical research,
nuclear medicine, cancer therapy and others.
The present book sets out to present the main concepts in modern accelerator technology and
particularly to give a thorough treatment of the underlying physics. It is a textbook for graduate
students "who have completed their core-courses including classical mechanics, electrodynamics,
quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics". This is the third edition of "Accelerator Physics"
following the first edition in 1999 and the second in 2004. The author, Shyh-Yuan Lee, is a professor
at Bloomington University, Indiana, and has written several books on related issues.
Treated topics comprise: Historical Developments, Layout and Components of Accelerators,
Accelerator Application, Hamiltonian for Particle Motion in Accelerators, Linear Betatron Motion,
Effect of Linear Magnet Imperfections, Off-Momentum Orbit, Chromatic Aberration, Non-Linear
Resonances, Collective Instability, Synchrotron Motion, Physics of Electron Storage Rings, Free
Electron Lasers, Beam-Beam Interaction and others. The appendix treats Classical Mechanics and
Analysis as well as Numerical Methods and Physical Constants.
Looking at these main topics, it is obvious that the focus is not on technology and engineering of
accelerators, but on the understanding of physical processes that occur in these. The physics is
presented in all mathematical detail with emphasis on the use of Floquet's transformation and its
application to solve Hill's equation with perturbations. Black and white figures illustrate the text.
References are given in footnotes, there is a short but helpful index and a declaration of symbols and
expressions used. Problems are given in the usual textbook style as end-of-chapter problems, in this
case often as an interesting solution the derivation of which is required. The quality of the print and
the paper is very good. When looking at the surrounding market, there are numerous books available
which treat accelerator physics, technology, applications and related issues such as beam dynamics
and interaction, see for example the first half of the bibliography in the backmatter, and many more.
The present book does not particularly stick out, however, the original statement "This book is
intended to be used as a graduate or senior undergraduate textbook in accelerator physics and
science. It can be used as preparatory course material for graduate accelerator physics students
doing thesis research", can be taken for granted. Therefore, it can be recommended (and is indeed
often recommended) as a good companion for a course in accelerator physics specifically for
graduate students, but may also serve as a reference.
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