Table of Contents for – December 2008
(Volume 11, Issue 12)

Please cite this journal as Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams. For citations, use the volume number and year as given above; the article id (the six-digit number given below for each article) replaces the page number in traditional citations. Thus a citation should be in the form: A. Jones, Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 1, 011502 (1998).

Editorials, Essays, and Announcements

Essay: Robert H. Siemann—encounters and essays
Frank Zimmermann
Published 1 December 2008 (4 pages)
120001 [View PDF (288 kB) , One-column PDF (288 kB), or gzip'ed PS (5753 kB) ]

Essay: Bob Siemann and the meson production by polarized photons
Richard Talman
Published 4 December 2008 (4 pages)
120002 [View PDF (130 kB) or One-column PDF (130 kB) ]

Essay: Robert H. Siemann and plasma wakefield acceleration at SLAC
Tom Katsouleas
Published 8 December 2008 (2 pages)
120003 [View PDF (81 kB) or One-column PDF (81 kB) ]

Essay: Bob Siemann’s contributions to advanced accelerators—a personal perspective
Wim Leemans
Published 9 December 2008 (3 pages)
120004 [View PDF (159 kB) or One-column PDF (159 kB) ]

Essay: In memory of Robert Siemann
Alexander W. Chao
Published 9 December 2008 (3 pages)
120005 [View PDF (80 kB) or One-column PDF (80 kB) ]

Essay: Robert H. Siemann: A personal tribute
Srinivas Krishnagopal
Published 9 December 2008 (3 pages)
120006 [View PDF (133 kB) or One-column PDF (133 kB) ]

Essay: Remembering Bob Siemann as an early mentor
Richard S. Galik
Published 12 December 2008 (2 pages)
120007 [View PDF (123 kB) or One-column PDF (123 kB) ]

Essay: Robert H. Siemann as leader of the Advanced Accelerator Research Department
Eric R. Colby and Mark J. Hogan
Published 12 December 2008 (3 pages)
120008 [View PDF (131 kB) or One-column PDF (131 kB) ]

Essay: Memories of a mentor and friend—Robert H. Siemann
Gerald P. Jackson
Published 12 December 2008 (4 pages)
120009 [View PDF (80 kB) or One-column PDF (80 kB) ]

Essay: Hands across the Atlantic
Mike Poole
Published 12 December 2008 (2 pages)
120010 [View PDF (160 kB) or One-column PDF (160 kB) ]

Essay: Bob Siemann—SLC days at SLAC
Tor O. Raubenheimer
Published 16 December 2008 (2 pages)
120011 [View PDF (136 kB) or One-column PDF (136 kB) ]

Essay: Bob Siemann and PRST-AB
Martin Blume
Published 17 December 2008 (3 pages)
120012 [View PDF (84 kB) or One-column PDF (84 kB) ]

Essay: Bob Siemann and the Spallation Neutron Source: A remembrance
Stuart D. Henderson
Published 18 December 2008 (3 pages)
120013 [View PDF (136 kB) or One-column PDF (136 kB) ]

Essay: Robert H. Siemann—a great scientist, teacher, mentor, and friend: From LEP and SLC to advanced accelerators
Ralph W. Aßmann
Published 22 December 2008 (2 pages)
120014 [View PDF (86 kB) or One-column PDF (86 kB) ]

ARTICLES

Pulsed-Power Accelerators, Technology, and Dynamics

Energy loss to conductors operated at lineal current densities ≤10  MA/cm: Semianalytic model, magnetohydrodynamic simulations, and experiment
W. A. Stygar, S. E. Rosenthal, H. C. Ives, T. C. Wagoner, G. O. Allshouse, K. E. Androlewicz, G. L. Donovan, D. L. Fehl, M. H. Frese, T. L. Gilliland, M. F. Johnson, J. A. Mills, D. B. Reisman, P. G. Reynolds, C. S. Speas, R. B. Spielman, K. W. Struve, A. Toor, and E. M. Waisman
Published 8 December 2008 (14 pages)
120401 [View PDF (865 kB) or One-column PDF (871 kB) ]

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Scheme for stabilization of output power of an x-ray self-amplified spontaneous emission free-electron laser
Gianluca Geloni, Evgeni Saldin, Evgeni Schneidmiller, and Mikhail Yurkov
Published 4 December 2008 (5 pages)
120701 [View PDF (5213 kB) or One-column PDF (5211 kB) ]

Delta undulator for Cornell energy recovery linac
Alexander B. Temnykh
Published 11 December 2008 (10 pages)
120702 [View PDF (4521 kB) or One-column PDF (4523 kB) ]

Radio Frequency Calculations and Technology

Evidence of high-field radio-frequency hot spots due to trapped vortices in niobium cavities
G. Ciovati and A. Gurevich
Published 16 December 2008 (12 pages)
122001 [View PDF (2342 kB) or One-column PDF (2761 kB) ]

Other Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies

Applications

Pion linac as an energy-tagged ν source
T. Goldman and Richard R. Silbar
Published 16 December 2008 (6 pages)
124701 [View PDF (208 kB) or One-column PDF (212 kB) ]



OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST

PRST-AB provides links to accelerator and beams articles published in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E as a convenience to our readers. There are no restrictions on access to the abstracts, but you must have a subscription to the relevant journal, either individually or through your institution, to access the full text.

Articles from Physical Review Letters

Volume Reflection Dependence of 400  GeV/c Protons on the Bent Crystal Curvature
W. Scandale et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 234801 (2008) [Published 1 December 2008]
Transverse-Coherence Properties of the Free-Electron-Laser FLASH at DESY
A. Singer, I. A. Vartanyants, M. Kuhlmann, S. Duesterer, R. Treusch, and J. Feldhaus
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 254801 (2008) [Published 18 December 2008]
Collision-Driven Negative-Energy Waves and the Weibel Instability of a Relativistic Electron Beam in a Quasineutral Plasma
Anupam Karmakar, Naveen Kumar, Gennady Shvets, Oleg Polomarov, and Alexander Pukhov
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101 255001 (2008) [Published 15 December 2008]

Articles from Physical Review E

Filamentation instability of a fast electron beam in a dielectric target
A. Debayle and V. T. Tikhonchuk
Phys. Rev. E, 78 066404 (2008) [Published 12 December 2008]
Bremsstrahlung and line spectroscopy of warm dense aluminum plasma heated by xuv free-electron-laser radiation
U. Zastrau, C. Fortmann, R. R. Fäustlin, L. F. Cao, T. Döppner, S. Düsterer, S. H. Glenzer, G. Gregori, T. Laarmann, H. J. Lee, A. Przystawik, P. Radcliffe, H. Reinholz, G. Röpke, R. Thiele, J. Tiggesbäumker, N. X. Truong, S. Toleikis, I. Uschmann, A. Wierling, T. Tschentscher, E. Förster, and R. Redmer
Phys. Rev. E, 78 066406 (2008) [Published 30 December 2008]