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THE PHYSICS OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
This book explains the underlying physics of synchrotron radiation and derives its main
properties. It is divided into four parts. The first covers the general case of the electromag-
netic fields created by an accelerated relativistic charge. The second part concentrates on
the radiation emitted by a charge moving on a circular trajectory, deriving its distribution
in angle, frequency, and polarization modes. The third part looks at undulator radiation.
Starting from the simple case of a plane weak undulator with a spatially periodic field that
emits quasi-monochromatic radiation, the author then discusses strong undulators, emit-
ting plicated radiation and containing higher harmonics. More general undulators
are also considered, with a non-planar (helical) electron trajectory or non-harmonic field.
The final part deals with applications and investigates the optics of synchrotron radiation
dominated by diffraction due to the small opening angle. It also includes a description of
electron-storage rings as radiation sources and the effect of the emitted radiation on the
electron beam.
This book provides a valuable reference for scientists and engineers in the field of accel-
erators, and for all users of synchrotron radiation.
albert hofmann received his doctorate in physics from the ETH (Swiss Federal Insti-
tute of Technology) in Z¨urich in 1964. From 1966 to 1972 he was a Research Fellow at the
Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a joint laboratory of Harvard University and MIT. He then
spent the next ten years working as Senior Physicist at CERN, Geneva. In 1983 he became
a professor at Stanford University, working on the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC) and on
optimizing the storage rings SPEAR and PEP for synchrotron-radiation use. He spent two
years as head of the SLAC beam-dynamics group. He then returned to CERN, in 1987, and
was jointly responsible for missioning of the La