Welcome to the Charged Particle Beams download site. The text was originally published by John Wiley and Sons (ISBN 0-471-60014-8, QC786.H86) in 1990.The unabridged book with all illustrations has been converted to PDF format. The conversion was supported by Field Precision LLC. Please send errata and comments to me at humphriess@fieldp.com.

-Stan Humphries

1.1. Charged particle beams

1.2. Methods and organization

1.3. Single-particle dynamics

2.1. Particle trajectories in phase space

2.2. Distribution functions

2.3. Numerical calculation of particle orbits with beam-generated forces

2.4. Conservation of phase-space volume

2.5. Density and average velocity

2.6. Maxwell distribution

2.7. Collisionless Boltzmann equation

2.8. Charge and current density

2.9. Computer simulations

2.10. Moment equations

2.11. Pressure force in collisionless distributions

2.12. Relativistic particle distributions

3.1. Laminar and non-laminar beams

3.2. Emittance

3.3. Measurement of emittance

3.4. Coupled beam distributions, longitudinal emittance, normalized emittance, and brightness

3.5 Emittance force

3.6. Non-laminar beams in drift regions

3.7. Non-laminar beams in linear focusing systems

3.8. Compression and expansion of non-laminar beams

4.1. Linear transformations of elliptical distributions

4.2. Transport parameters from particle orbit theory

4.3. Beam matching

4.4. Non-linear focusing systems

4.5. Emittance in storage rings

4.6. Beam cooling

5.1. Electric and magnetic fields of beams

5.2. One-dimensional Child law for non-relativistic particles

5.3. Longitudinal transport limits for magnetically-confined electron beams

5.4. Space-charge expansion of a drifting beam

5.5. Transverse forces in relativistic beams

6.1. Space-charge-limited flow with an initial injection energy

6.2. Space-charge-limited flow from a thermionic cathode

6.3. Space-charge-limited flow in spherical geometry

6.4. Bipolar flow

6.5. Space-charge-limited flow of relativistic electrons

6.6. One-dimensional self-consistent equilibrium

6.7. KV distribution

7.1. Pierce method for gun design

7.2. Medium-perveance guns

7.3. High-perveance guns and ray tracing codes

7.4. High-current electron sources

7.5. Extraction of ions at a free plasma boundary

7.6. Plasma ion sources

7.7. Charged-particle extraction from grid-controlled plasmas

7.8. Ion extractors

8.1. Motion of electrons in crossed electric and magnetic fields

8.2. Pinched electron beam diodes

8.3. Electron diodes with strong applied magnetic fields

8.4. Magnetic insulation of high power transmission lines

8.5. Plasma erosion

8.6. Reflex triode

8.7. Low-impedance reflex triode

8.8. Magnetically-insulated ion diode

8.9. Ion flow enhancement in magnetically-insulated diodes

9.1. Envelope equation for sheet beams

9.2. Paraxial ray equation

9.3. Envelope equation in a quadrupole lens array

9.4. Limiting current for paraxial beams

9.5. Multi-beam ion transport

9.6. Longitudinal space-charge limits in RF accelerators and induction linacs

10.1. Motion of electrons through a magnetic cusp

10.2. Propagation of beams from an immersed cathode

10.3. Brillouin equilibrium of a cylindrical electron beam

10.4. Interaction of electrons with matter

10.5. Foil focusing of relativistic electron beams

10.6. Wall-charge and return-current for a beam in a pipe

10.7. Drifts of electron beams in a solenoidal field

10.8. Guiding electron beams with solenoidal fields

10.9. Electron beam transport in magnetic cusps

11.1. Neutralization by comoving electrons

11.2. Transverse neutralization

11.3. Current neutralization in vacuum

11.4. Focal limits for neutralized ion beams

11.5. Acceleration and transport of neutralized ion beams

12.1. Space-charge neutralization in equilibrium plasmas

12.2. Oscillations of an un-magnetized plasma

12.3. Oscillations of a neutralized electron beam

12.4 Injection of a pulsed electron beam into a plasma

12.5. Magnetic skin depth

12.6. Return current in a resistive plasma

12.7. Limiting current for neutralized electron beams

12.8. Bennett equilibrium

12.9. Propagation in low-density plasmas and weakly-ionized gases

13.1. Instabilities of space-charge-dominated beams in periodic focusing systems

13.2. Betatron waves on a filamentary beam

13.3. Frictional forces and phase mixing

13.4. Transverse resonant modes

13.5. Beam breakup instability

13.6. Transverse resistive wall instability

13.7. Hose instability of an electron beam in an ion channel

13.8. Resistive hose instability

13.9. Filamentation instability of neutralized electron beams

14.1. Two-stream instability

14.2. Beam-generated axial electric fields

14.3. Negative mass instability

14.4. Longitudinal resistive wall instability

15.1. Inverse diode

15.2. Driving resonant cavities with electron beams

15.3. Longitudinal beam bunching

15.4. Klystron

15.5. Traveling-wave tube

15.6. Magnetron

15.7. Mechanism of the free-electron laser

15.8. Phase dynamics in the free-electron laser