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Announcing Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams (February 1, 1998)The American Physical Society is pleased to announce the start of a new peer reviewed electronic journal: Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams. This is the first in what will eventually become a series of Special Topics journals. The journal will be distributed without charge, and for the foreseeable future there will be no submittal or publication charges. The introduction of Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams is the result of extensive study by The American Physical Society and its Division of the Physics of Beams, who have recognized the need for a wide ranging and widely distributed peer reviewed journal for their field. While some papers on particle accelerators appear in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E, results on work in this field of a more technical character usually are not appropriate for those journals, and, as a result, the accelerator literature was fragmented among many journals. Hence PRST - AB. The criteria for acceptance of articles will include the high scholarly and technical standards of our other Physical Review journals. The scope of the journal will cover the full range of accelerator science and technology: subsystem and component technologies; beam dynamics; applications of accelerators; and design, operation, and improvement of accelerators used in science and industry. This will include high energy and nuclear physics, synchrotron radiation production, spallation neutron sources, medical therapy, and intense beam applications, among others. We are especially fortunate that Professor Robert Siemann of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has accepted the position of Editor of the journal. He has assembled a distinguished international group of experts in all areas of accelerator physics and technology to serve as members of the Editorial Board. Membership includes
Ilan Ben-Zvi, Brookhaven National Laboratory John Galayda, Argonne National Laboratory Peter Schmueser, University of Hamburg All aspects of journal production will be handled electronically, from submittal through refereeing and copy editing, to production and distribution. The American Physical Society will ensure the continued availability of the electronic archive of these journals through future changes in electronic publishing technology, just as it will do for its other journals. A suite of authoring tools will be made available, and article submissions will be accepted in a modified REVTeX, and in Microsoft Word. Guidelines for authors and for referees will be available electronically through The American Physical Society publications home page (http://publish.aps.org/) by February 16, 1998. Papers may be submitted beginning March 1, 1998, and we will begin publication in April. Instructions for submittal will be given on the publications home page above. We are delighted to be able to offer to the accelerator physics and technology community a journal in which the full range of accelerator science and technology is collected in one place, which will be widely distributed, and which will have the high standards and the name of the highly regarded Physical Reviews. |
