44th ICFA Workshop under the sponsorship of the ICFA BD Panel
X-Band RF Structure & Beam Dynamics Workshop
Monday 1st - Thursday 4th December 2008, Cockcroft Institute, UK
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams
44th ICFA Beam Dynamics Workshop on: X-Band Structures and Beam Dynamics (2008)
Conference Edition
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams is publishing a special conference edition for the International Workshop on X-Band Structures and Beam Dynamics (XB 2008) held at the Cockcroft Institute in Daresbury, Cheshire, U.K., 1-4 December 2008
Dr. Roger M. Jones of Cockcroft Institute and the University of Manchester also the Conference Chair, will act as the special editor of this edition.
Further details on submission to this special issue are available below.
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB) is an all-electronic journal published by the American Physical Society and available at http://prst-ab.aps.org/. The all-electronic nature of PRST-AB allows conference editions while maintaining thorough peer review and timely publication. In addition, it provides global access and archiving beyond that ordinarily offered by conference proceedings. The PRST-AB template available through links on the PRST-AB home page is the required format for submissions.
A complete collection of papers submitted to the XB2008 workshop will be posted on JACoW (http://www.jacow.org) without any further review. The Local Organizing Committee recommends that all contributors to the workshop consider submitting an extended version of their XB2008 paper to PRST-AB. Authors should submit to PRST-AB using the procedure found through links on the PRST-AB home page. Papers will be peer-reviewed through the normal refereeing procedure, and if accepted for publication they will be published as regular PRST-AB articles and as part of the XB 2008 Conference Edition.
Publication will be timely; articles will be published as soon as they are ready with no delay waiting for other papers presented at the conference. In addition, the XB 2008 Table of Contents and the Workshop WWW site will be updated each time a paper is published.
PRST-AB Criteria: Papers must either contain important new results in science and/or technology, or, in the case of “review articles”, survey active areas of research in a form that is useful to both practitioners and people entering the field. Confirmation of previously published results of unusual importance can be considered as new, as can significant null results. Papers cannot be duplicates of work submitted for publication either to another journal or identical to the work published in the XB 2008 proceedings, but an XB 2008 paper can be the basis of an article in PRST-AB provided the submitted manuscript presents more information, enabling the reader to obtain an improved understanding of the subject.
There are many reasons why you should consider publishing in the XB 2008 Conference Edition.
- PRST-AB is a peer reviewed, American Physical Society journal. Peer reviewed articles benefit from careful reading and criticism of a knowledgeable colleague.
- PRST-AB is available to everyone without subscription or pay per view fees, and PRST-AB is an archival journal. The APS is committed to maintaining that availability even as computer technology and software change.
- PRST-AB has no page limits, so this is the opportunity to write about your work without that limitation.
- Your article will be published in a timely manner and grouped together with other work presented at the International Workshop on X-Band Structures and Beam Dynamics (XB 2008).
We look forward to your contribution.
Contact Frank Zimmermann (frank.zimmermann@cern.ch), the PRST-AB Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRST-AB policies and Roger Jones (r.m.jones@dl.ac.uk), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.
Authors should note that their paper is for the XB 2008 Conference Edition in the message accompanying submission to PRST-AB.
See http://prst-ab.aps.org/ for general information about Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams and http://authors.aps.org/ESUB/ for guidelines for contributions.
Further Information
Please contact the workshop administrator
contact Sue Waller (s.waller@dl.ac.uk)
tel: +44(0) 1925 603212
fax: +44(0) 1925 603192
