Padamsee (physics, Cornell U., US) is project leader of the Superconducting Radio Frequency Group, pushing accelerator technology for particle physics at the energy and luminosity frontiers. His 1998 RF Superconductivity for Accelerators (John Wiley & Sons) continues to be the standard text, but the changes it has played a large part in bringing about over the past decade have surpassed much of it. Rather than trying to incorporate both the old and new in a second edition, he here focuses on developments since then, and even so must be selective and representative. For example, he has no room to deal with cryomodule and cavity/cryomodule integration or feedback and low-level RF controls. Taking in turn the science, the technology, and applications, he considers such topics as new cavity geometries, multipacting and field emission, input couplers, tuners, storage rings, heavy-ion accelerators, nuclear astrophysics, and transmutation. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
This is the second book to RF Superconducting, written by one of the leading experts. The book provides fast and up-to-date access to the latest advances in the key technology for future accelerators.
Experts as well as newcomers to the field will benefit from the discussion of progress in the basic science, technology as well as recent and forthcoming applications. Researchers in accelerator physics will also find much that is relevant to their discipline.