Table of Contents for – March 2008
(Volume 11, Issue 3)

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).

ARTICLES

Pulsed-Power Accelerators, Technology, and Dynamics

Optimized transmission-line impedance transformers for petawatt-class pulsed-power accelerators
D. R. Welch, T. C. Genoni, D. V. Rose, N. L. Bruner, and W. A. Stygar
Published 17 March 2008 (8 pages)
030401 [View PDF (1482 kB) , One-column PDF (1511 kB), or gzip'ed PS (2128 kB) ]

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Modeling of the microbunching instability
M. Borland
Published 6 March 2008 (8 pages)
030701 [View PDF (745 kB) , One-column PDF (758 kB), or gzip'ed PS (451 kB) ]

Statistical analysis of crossed undulator for polarization control in a self-amplified spontaneous emission free electron laser
Yuantao Ding and Zhirong Huang
Published 10 March 2008 (6 pages)
030702 [View PDF (240 kB) , One-column PDF (242 kB), or gzip'ed PS (235 kB) ]

Commissioning the Linac Coherent Light Source injector
R. Akre, D. Dowell, P. Emma, J. Frisch, S. Gilevich, G. Hays, Ph. Hering, R. Iverson, C. Limborg-Deprey, H. Loos, A. Miahnahri, J. Schmerge, J. Turner, J. Welch, W. White, and J. Wu
Published 12 March 2008 (20 pages)
030703 [View PDF (8307 kB) , One-column PDF (8321 kB), or gzip'ed PS (36242 kB) ]

Proposed dielectric-based microstructure laser-driven undulator
T. Plettner and R. L. Byer
Published 20 March 2008 (10 pages)
030704 [View PDF (429 kB) , One-column PDF (434 kB), or gzip'ed PS (2050 kB) ]

High-Energy Accelerators and Colliders

General method for final focus system design for circular colliders
Riccardo de Maria
Published 31 March 2008 (8 pages)
031001 [View PDF (363 kB) , One-column PDF (370 kB), or gzip'ed PS (315 kB) ]

New Acceleration Techniques

Monoenergetic ion beams from ultrathin foils irradiated by ultrahigh-contrast circularly polarized laser pulses
O. Klimo, J. Psikal, J. Limpouch, and V. T. Tikhonchuk
Published 17 March 2008 (14 pages)
031301 [View PDF (1603 kB) , One-column PDF (1608 kB), or gzip'ed PS (9811 kB) ]

Radio Frequency Calculations and Technology

Superconducting accelerating structures for very low velocity ion beams
J. Xu, K. W. Shepard, P. N. Ostroumov, J. D. Fuerst, G. Waldschmidt, and I. V. Gonin
Published 13 March 2008 (8 pages)
032001 [View PDF (955 kB) , One-column PDF (1012 kB), or gzip'ed PS (12277 kB) ]

Magnet Calculations and Technology

Field interference studies between bump magnets with different coil structures at Chinese Spallation Neutron Source
Y. Chen and J. Y. Tang
Published 13 March 2008 (6 pages)
032401 [View PDF (1035 kB) , One-column PDF (1039 kB), or gzip'ed PS (5691 kB) ]

Beam Control, Diagnostics, and Feedback

High brightness electron beam emittance evolution measurements in an rf photoinjector
A. Cianchi et al.
Published 4 March 2008 (13 pages)
032801 [View PDF (2220 kB) , One-column PDF (2244 kB), or gzip'ed PS (7244 kB) ]

Analytic approximation of the head-tail phase difference from continuous transverse excitation for measuring chromaticity
C. Y. Tan and V. H. Ranjbar
Published 4 March 2008 (11 pages)
032802 [View PDF (623 kB) , One-column PDF (627 kB), or gzip'ed PS (1493 kB) ]

Multiturn circulation of an energy-recovery linac beam in a storage ring
T. Nakamura
Published 6 March 2008 (6 pages)
032803 [View PDF (392 kB) , One-column PDF (388 kB), or gzip'ed PS (244 kB) ]

Experimental observation and investigation of the prewave zone effect in optical diffraction radiation
P. Karataev, S. Araki, A. Aryshev, G. Naumenko, A. Potylitsyn, N. Terunuma, and J. Urakawa
Published 10 March 2008 (15 pages)
032804 [View PDF (3340 kB) , One-column PDF (3403 kB), or gzip'ed PS (2103 kB) ]

Relativistic, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

Models of longitudinal space-charge impedance for microbunching instability
Marco Venturini
Published 25 March 2008 (5 pages)
034401 [View PDF (214 kB) , One-column PDF (216 kB), or gzip'ed PS (209 kB) ]

COMMENTS

Comment on “Uniformization of the transverse beam profile by means of nonlinear focusing method”
Robert E. Shafer
Published 20 March 2008 (2 pages)
039001 [View PDF (52 kB) , One-column PDF (52 kB), or gzip'ed PS (64 kB) ]

Reply to “Comment on `Uniformization of the transverse beam profile by means of nonlinear focusing method’”
Yosuke Yuri, Nobumasa Miyawaki, Tomihiro Kamiya, Watalu Yokota, Kazuo Arakawa, and Mitsuhiro Fukuda
Published 20 March 2008 (2 pages)
039002 [View PDF (55 kB) , One-column PDF (55 kB), or gzip'ed PS (72 kB) ]



OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST

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Articles from Physical Review Letters

Measurement of Electron Clouds in Large Accelerators by Microwave Dispersion
S. De Santis, J. M. Byrd, F. Caspers, A. Krasnykh, T. Kroyer, M. T. Pivi, and K. G. Sonnad
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 094801 (2008) [Published 7 March 2008]
Laser-Driven Coherent Betatron Oscillation in a Laser-Wakefield Cavity
Károly Németh, Baifei Shen, Yuelin Li, Hairong Shang, Robert Crowell, Katherine C. Harkay, and John R. Cary
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 095002 (2008) [Published 4 March 2008]
Self-Induced Harmonic Generation in a Storage-Ring Free-Electron Laser
G. De Ninno, E. Allaria, M. Coreno, S. Chowdhury, F. Curbis, M. B. Danailov, B. Diviacco, M. Ferianis, E. Karantzoulis, E. C. Longhi, I. V. Pinayev, C. Spezzani, M. Trovò, and V. N. Litvinenko
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 104801 (2008) [Published 10 March 2008]
Dynamic Control of Laser-Produced Proton Beams
S. Kar, K. Markey, P. T. Simpson, C. Bellei, J. S. Green, S. R. Nagel, S. Kneip, D. C. Carroll, B. Dromey, L. Willingale, E. L. Clark, P. McKenna, Z. Najmudin, K. Krushelnick, P. Norreys, R. J. Clarke, D. Neely, M. Borghesi, and M. Zepf
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 105004 (2008) [Published 11 March 2008]
Observation of Synchrotron Radiation from Electrons Accelerated in a Petawatt-Laser-Generated Plasma Cavity
S. Kneip, S. R. Nagel, C. Bellei, N. Bourgeois, A. E. Dangor, A. Gopal, R. Heathcote, S. P. Mangles, J. R. Marquès, A. Maksimchuk, P. M. Nilson, K. Ta Phuoc, S. Reed, M. Tzoufras, F. S. Tsung, L. Willingale, W. B. Mori, A. Rousse, K. Krushelnick, and Z. Najmudin
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 105006 (2008) [Published 14 March 2008]
Proposal for Generating Brilliant X-Ray Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum
Shigemi Sasaki and Ian McNulty
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100 124801 (2008) [Published 24 March 2008]

Articles from Physical Review E

Pulse propagation and electron acceleration in a corrugated plasma channel
J. P. Palastro, T. M. Antonsen, S. Morshed, A. G. York, and H. M. Milchberg
Phys. Rev. E, 77 036405 (2008) [Published 12 March 2008]
(3+1)-dimensional numerical simulations of femtosecond laser filaments in air: Toward a quantitative agreement with experiments
S. Champeaux, L. Bergé, D. Gordon, A. Ting, J. Peñano, and P. Sprangle
Phys. Rev. E, 77 036406 (2008) [Published 13 March 2008]
Lateral movement of a laser-accelerated proton source on the target's rear surface
Tatsufumi Nakamura, Kunioki Mima, Sargis Ter-Avetisyan, Matthias Schnürer, Thomas Sokollik, Peter V. Nickles, and Wolfgang Sandner
Phys. Rev. E, 77 036407 (2008) [Published 18 March 2008]