The Physics of Synchrotron Radiation

Comprehensive coverage of the underlying physics, with applications, for graduates and researchers.

Albert Hofmann (Author)

9780521308267, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 May 2004

346 pages, 119 b/w illus. 2 tables
25.4 x 18.2 x 2.5 cm, 1.053 kg

'Hofmann's treatment grows steadily from a fundamental consideration of electric and magnetic fields due to a moving charge (the Liénard-Wiechert equations) to a complete exposition of the topic. … The methodologies used are consistent throughout helping to reinforce the basic tenets of synchrotron radiation theory and its application to both continuously bent and undulating electron beam configurations. … The Physics of Synchrotron Radiation is an advanced level text that would make a fine companion to many of its subject contemporaries as a rigorous treatment of the fundamentals of synchrotron radiation.' Contemporary Physics

This book explains the underlying physics of synchrotron radiation and derives its main properties. It is divided into four parts. The first covers the general case of the electromagnetic fields created by an accelerated relativistic charge. The second part concentrates on the radiation emitted by a charge moving on a circular trajectory. The third looks at undulator radiation, covering plane weak undulators, strong undulators and other more general undulators. The final part deals with applications and investigates the optics of synchrotron radiation dominated by diffraction due to the small opening angle. It also includes a description of electron storage rings as radiation sources and the effect of the emitted radiation on the electron beam. This book provides a valuable reference for scientists and engineers in the field of accelerators, and all users of synchrotron radiation.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Notation
Part I. Introduction: 1. A qualitative treatment of synchrotron radiation
2. Fields of a moving charge
3. The emitted radiation field and power
Part II. Synchrotron Radiation: 4. Synchrotron radiation: basic physics
5. Synchrotron radiation: properties
Part III. Undulator Radiation: 6. A qualitative treatment
7. The plane weak undulator
8. The plane strong undulator
9. The helical undulator
10. Wiggler magnets
11. Weak magnets - a generalized weak undulator
Part IV. Applications: 12. Optics of SR - imaging
13. Electron-storage rings
14. Effects of radiation on the electron beam
15. Radiation emitted by many particles
Appendix A: Airy functions
Appendix B: Bessel functions
Appendix C: developments of strong-undulator radiation
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP]