1999/04/28 by Sameen Ahmed Khan, Khan, Sameen Ahmed
Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #physics.acc-ph #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9904063
7 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the 1999 Particle Accelerator Conference (PAC99), 29 March -- 02 April 1999, New York City, Eds: A. Luccio and W. MacKay. http://www.pd.infn.it/~khan/
arxiv created 1999/04/28 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Present understanding of accelerator optics is based mainly on classical mechanics and electrodynamics. In recent years quantum theory of charged-particle beam optics has been under development. In this paper the newly developed formalism is outlined.