Table of Contents for – March 2009
(Volume 12, 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

Tailoring of electron flow current in magnetically insulated transmission lines
J. P. Martin, M. E. Savage, T. D. Pointon, and M. A. Gilmore
Published 5 March 2009 (12 pages)
030401 [View PDF (1277 kB) or One-column PDF (1280 kB) ]

Shaping the output pulse of a linear-transformer-driver module
W. A. Stygar, W. E. Fowler, K. R. LeChien, F. W. Long, M. G. Mazarakis, G. R. McKee, J. L. McKenney, J. L. Porter, M. E. Savage, B. S. Stoltzfus, D. M. Van De Valde, and J. R. Woodworth
Published 10 March 2009 (11 pages)
030402 [View PDF (1738 kB) or One-column PDF (1742 kB) ]

Synchrotron Radiation and Free-Electron Lasers

Observation of coherent terahertz edge radiation from compressed electron beams
G. Andonian, A. Cook, M. Dunning, E. Hemsing, G. Marcus, A. Murokh, S. Reiche, D. Schiller, J. B. Rosenzweig, M. Babzien, K. Kusche, and V. Yakimenko
Published 3 March 2009 (6 pages)
030701 [View PDF (503 kB) or One-column PDF (503 kB) ]

Echo-enabled harmonic generation free electron laser
Dao Xiang and Gennady Stupakov
Published 4 March 2009 (10 pages)
030702 [View PDF (2134 kB) or One-column PDF (2138 kB) ]

Tunable optical cavity for an x-ray free-electron-laser oscillator
Kwang-Je Kim and Yuri V. Shvyd’ko
Published 5 March 2009 (6 pages)
030703 [View PDF (356 kB) or One-column PDF (362 kB) ]

Measurements and modeling of coherent synchrotron radiation and its impact on the Linac Coherent Light Source electron beam
K. L. Bane, F.-J. Decker, Y. Ding, D. Dowell, P. Emma, J. Frisch, Z. Huang, R. Iverson, C. Limborg-Deprey, H. Loos, H.-D. Nuhn, D. Ratner, G. Stupakov, J. Turner, J. Welch, and J. Wu
Published 17 March 2009 (9 pages)
030704 [View PDF (1699 kB) or One-column PDF (1701 kB) ]

Ultrabroadband terahertz source and beamline based on coherent transition radiation
S. Casalbuoni, B. Schmidt, P. Schmüser, V. Arsov, and S. Wesch
Published 25 March 2009 (13 pages)
030705 [View PDF (1358 kB) or One-column PDF (1372 kB) ]

High-Energy Accelerators and Colliders

Simulations of beam-beam and beam-wire interactions in RHIC
Hyung J. Kim, Tanaji Sen, Natalia P. Abreu, and Wolfram Fischer
Published 12 March 2009 (15 pages)
031001 [View PDF (1611 kB) or One-column PDF (1615 kB) ]

rf breakdown with external magnetic fields in 201 and 805 MHz cavities
R. B. Palmer, R. C. Fernow, Juan C. Gallardo, Diktys Stratakis, and Derun Li
Published 12 March 2009 (13 pages)
031002 [View PDF (2199 kB) or One-column PDF (2210 kB) ]

New Acceleration Techniques

rf deflector design of the CLIC test facility CTF3 delay loop and beam loading effect analysis
David Alesini and Fabio Marcellini
Published 10 March 2009 (16 pages)
031301 [View PDF (5938 kB) or One-column PDF (5946 kB) ]

Radio Frequency Calculations and Technology

dc breakdown conditioning and breakdown rate of metals and metallic alloys under ultrahigh vacuum
A. Descoeudres, T. Ramsvik, S. Calatroni, M. Taborelli, and W. Wuensch
Published 24 March 2009 (8 pages)
032001 [View PDF (1004 kB) or One-column PDF (1006 kB) ]

Magnet Calculations and Technology

Analytical method for the evaluation of field modulation inside the rf-shielded chamber with a time-dependent dipole magnetic field
Yoshihiro Shobuda, Yoshiro Irie, and Susumu Igarashi
Published 12 March 2009 (24 pages)
032401 [View PDF (1703 kB) or One-column PDF (1713 kB) ]

Beam Control, Diagnostics, and Feedback

Absolute bunch length measurements by incoherent radiation fluctuation analysis
F. Sannibale, G. V. Stupakov, M. S. Zolotorev, D. Filippetto, and L. Jägerhofer
Published 4 March 2009 (9 pages)
032801 [View PDF (1140 kB) or One-column PDF (1134 kB) ]

Electro-optic time profile monitors for femtosecond electron bunches at the soft x-ray free-electron laser FLASH
B. Steffen, V. Arsov, G. Berden, W. A. Gillespie, S. P. Jamison, A. M. MacLeod, A. F. van der Meer, P. J. Phillips, H. Schlarb, B. Schmidt, and P. Schmüser
Published 17 March 2009 (16 pages)
032802 [View PDF (1735 kB) or One-column PDF (1745 kB) ]

First measurements of the longitudinal bunch profile of a 28.5 GeV beam using coherent Smith-Purcell radiation
V. Blackmore, G. Doucas, C. Perry, B. Ottewell, M. F. Kimmitt, M. Woods, S. Molloy, and R. Arnold
Published 18 March 2009 (12 pages)
032803 [View PDF (972 kB) or One-column PDF (977 kB) ]

Other Accelerator Subsystems and Technologies

Theoretical and experimental study of passive spatiotemporal shaping of picosecond laser pulses
A. K. Sharma, T. Tsang, and T. Rao
Published 24 March 2009 (9 pages)
033501 [View PDF (3751 kB) or One-column PDF (3753 kB) ]

Low-Energy, Multiple-Particle Dynamics

Transverse instabilities of coasting beams with space charge
A. Burov and V. Lebedev
Published 3 March 2009 (6 pages)
034201 [View PDF (446 kB) or One-column PDF (448 kB) ]

ERRATA

Erratum: Pion linac as an energy-tagged ν source [Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 11, 124701 (2008)]
T. Goldman and Richard R. Silbar
Published 17 March 2009 (3 pages)
039901 [View PDF (95 kB) or One-column PDF (97 kB) ]



OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST

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Articles from Physical Review Letters

Laser-Driven Shock Acceleration of Ion Beams from Spherical Mass-Limited Targets
A. Henig, D. Kiefer, M. Geissler, S. G. Rykovanov, R. Ramis, R. Hörlein, J. Osterhoff, Zs. Major, L. Veisz, S. Karsch, F. Krausz, D. Habs, and J. Schreiber
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 095002 (2009) [Published 4 March 2009]
Maximum Achievable Beam Brightness from Photoinjectors
Ivan V. Bazarov, Bruce M. Dunham, and Charles K. Sinclair
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 104801 (2009) [Published 11 March 2009]
Relativistic Positron Creation Using Ultraintense Short Pulse Lasers
Hui Chen, Scott C. Wilks, James D. Bonlie, Edison P. Liang, Jason Myatt, Dwight F. Price, David D. Meyerhofer, and Peter Beiersdorfer
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 105001 (2009) [Published 11 March 2009]
Coherent Electron Cooling
Vladimir N. Litvinenko and Yaroslav S. Derbenev
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 114801 (2009) [Published 16 March 2009]
Few-Cycle Laser-Driven Electron Acceleration
K. Schmid, L. Veisz, F. Tavella, S. Benavides, R. Tautz, D. Herrmann, A. Buck, B. Hidding, A. Marcinkevicius, U. Schramm, M. Geissler, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, D. Habs, and F. Krausz
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 124801 (2009) [Published 26 March 2009]
Characterization of High-Intensity Laser Propagation in the Relativistic Transparent Regime through Measurements of Energetic Proton Beams
L. Willingale, S. R. Nagel, A. G. Thomas, C. Bellei, R. J. Clarke, A. E. Dangor, R. Heathcote, M. C. Kaluza, C. Kamperidis, S. Kneip, K. Krushelnick, N. Lopes, S. P. Mangles, W. Nazarov, P. M. Nilson, and Z. Najmudin
Phys. Rev. Lett., 102 125002 (2009) [Published 26 March 2009]

Articles from Physical Review E

Time-dependent energetic proton acceleration and scaling laws in ultraintense laser-pulse interactions with thin foils
Yongsheng Huang (黄永盛), Yuanjie Bi (毕远杰), Yijin Shi (施义晋), Naiyan Wang (王乃彦), Xiuzhang Tang (汤秀章), and Zhe Gao
Phys. Rev. E, 79 036406 (2009) [Published 25 March 2009]
Solid-density plasma nanochannel generated by a fast single ion in condensed matter
A. V. Lankin, I. V. Morozov, G. E. Norman, S. A. Pikuz, and I. Yu. Skobelev
Phys. Rev. E, 79 036407 (2009) [Published 30 March 2009]
Enhanced hot-electron localization and heating in high-contrast ultraintense laser irradiation of microcone targets
J. Rassuchine et al.
Phys. Rev. E, 79 036408 (2009) [Published 31 March 2009]