[PDF] The Physics of Intense Beams and Storage Rings Nikolai Dikansky, Dmitri Pestrikov

This text provides an in-depth description of the physical processes limiting or assisting the performance of intense beams in particle accelerators, colliders and storage rings. It incorporates current ideas on collective phenomena in stored beams as well as the results of other innovative studies. This text is intended to be of use to physicists, engineers and advanced graduates working with particle accelerators, storage rings and colliders.