Coating Materials and Surface Treatments for Applications in Particle Accelerators
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2020) | Viewed by 4598
Special Issue Editor
Interests: particle accelerators; beam dynamics in linear and circular machines; collective effects; instabilities in particle accelerators and mitigation effects; electromagnetic fields
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Future particle accelerators demand very high beam intensities and energies, which for circular machines have the consequence of a very strong production of synchrotron radiation, among other issues. Such radiation hitting the beam vacuum chamber can cause several unwanted effects such as heat load on accelerator walls, and photon-stimulated desorption and production of primary and secondary electrons. All these effects influence beam dynamics and may lead to uncontrolled beam instabilities, such as the electron cloud effect.
Studies of the properties of material surfaces are therefore a very important topic in particle accelerators. The problem of electron and photon emission has to be considered, however, taking into account the effects that different materials may have on the beam dynamics. High beam intensities interacting electromagnetically with the surrounding environment can produce intense electromagnetic fields that can act back on the beam itself, producing instabilitites.
The interaction of the beam with the surrounding environment in particle accelerators is described in terms of coupling impedance. Material with high resistivity can produce strong instabilitites. For this reason, a high conductivity material (such as copper) is generally used, and coated with a material that shows good behaviour in the presence of strong synchrotron radiation.
This Special Issue of Coatings will cover the latest research on the coating materials used in the vacuum chambers of future particle accelerators.
In particular, the topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Measurement of surface impedance;
- Primary and secondary electron yields;
- Reflectivity;
- Coating techniques;
- Laser ablation surface engineering (LASE).
Prof. Mauro Migliorati
Guest Editor
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