CI co-edits special edition in the European Physical Journal addressing high-energy accelerators

Cockcroft Institute and University of Manchester Professor Rob Appleby, together with colleagues from INFN (Italy), CERN (Switzerland), and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Russia), have edited a special issue of the European Physical Journal focusing on high-energy accelerators.

The special issue showcases a selection of topics related to advances, challenges, and applications of high-energy accelerator physics.

Some of the contributions provide a global overview of the applications of advanced beam dynamics concepts to existing or future machines, including the High-Luminosity LHC, muon colliders, the Future Circular Lepton Collider, and the SuperKEKB.

The quest for even more powerful accelerators brings beam dynamics towards limits imposed by collective effects and the related instabilities. A number of contributions discuss these challenges, in particular in the frame of the LHC.

Finally, a selection of papers discuss future advances in beam dynamics for high-energy accelerators.

The excellent contributions included in the issue testify to the vitality and diversity of scientific problems that emerge from the analysis of beam dynamics. They all indicate clearly that particle accelerators are by far not mere tools for scientific experiments.

All the articles of the focus point will be free to read for everybody until the 16th March 2023.

Reference:

R. Appleby, A. Bazzani, M. Giovannozzi, E. Levichev (editors)
Focus Point on High-Energy Accelerators: Advances, Challenges, and Applications
The European Physical Journal Plus 138 (2023) https://link.springer.com/journal/13360/topicalCollection/AC_959428753f16e0fcf96ca6bd08d501fb