Frontiers of Particle Beams: Intensity Limitations

These are the proceedings of the fourth school in a series of specialized courses organized by CERN's CAS and the American USPAS. They deal with intensity limitations. The exposition of the inner working of high-intensity particle beams addresses particle physicists as well as those that commission new machines. The lecturers were chosen for being at the forefront of the latest developments in this field.

Welcome address.- Intensity limitations in circular particle accelerators.- Wake fields and impedances.- Bench methods for bean-coupling impedance measurement.- Coherent beam instabilities.- Observation and correction of instabilities in circular accelerators.- Some longitudinal dynamics of bunched beams.- Low energy aspects of circular accelerators.- High current beam transport in linear accelerator structures.- Observation of high current effects in high energy linear accelerators.- Observations of the beam-beam interaction in Hadron colliders.- Beam-beam effects in electron-positron storage rings.- Coherent beam-beam effects.- Beam-beam phenomena in linear colliders.- Engineering limitations of proton colliders.- Engineering limitations with electrons.- Intrabeam scattering.- Ions and neutralization.- Beam loading in RF cavities.- High-brightness injectors for Hadron colliders.- The next linear collider.- Hadron collider luminosity limitations.- Physics and technology challenges of $$Bbar B$$ factories.