Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is a trusted open access journal for high-quality, significant developments in accelerator science, technology, and applications. The journal is sponsored by more than 40 research institutions and companies around the world, enabling open access publishing to all authors at zero cost.
A Joint Venture
PRAB is a fully open access journal that is funded by contributions from national and international laboratories, universities, industrial sponsors, and other sources. The generous support of sponsors enables the journal to be provided without charge to both authors and readers. The APS Division of Physics of Beams and European Physical Society Accelerators Group share responsibility for the health and vitality of the journal. PRAB coordinates with other members of the Physical Review family of journals to serve new subspecialties as they develop.
PRAB publishes detailed research articles, review articles, and Letters. Letters are short accessible papers of particular importance. The journal has a flexible approach to article lengths and welcomes submission of longer papers that provide depth and authority in their subject areas.
By Scientists, For Scientists
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRAB is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This ensures that its mission, standards, and policies prioritize the needs of researchers and the broader scientific community; this commitment is reinforced by APS’s promise as a founding member of the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition.
PRAB covers all topics in accelerator science, applications, and technology, including:
- Low- and intermediate-energy accelerators
- Pulsed-power accelerators
- Synchrotron radiation and free-electron lasers
- High-energy accelerators and colliders
- New acceleration techniques
- Accelerator Facilities and Design Studies
- Radio frequency calculations and technology
- Magnet calculations and technology
- Beam control, diagnostics, and feedback
- Particle and radiation detectors
- Targets, collimators, and beam dumps
- Accelerator materials and surfaces
- Cryogenics and vacuum technology
- Particle-beam sources
- Single-particle dynamics
- Low-energy, multiple-particle dynamics
- Relativistic, multiple-particle dynamics
- Material-beam interaction
- Computers, machine learning, and algorithms
Submitted manuscripts should meet the following criteria:
- Add to the existing knowledge related to accelerator science, technology, and applications.
- Make a high-quality, significant contribution in a specific research area and generate interest for PRAB's readers.
- Represent an authoritative and substantive addition to the body of literature.
- Review articles should present the current status of a research field in a form comprehensible and useful to both practitioners and people entering the field.
- Physical Review Accelerators and Beams is a fully open access journal that is funded by financial contributions from sponsors. Authors are able to publish in the journal at no charge.
- All articles are published with an open CC-BY (4.0 International) license with authors retaining copyright. This license permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work with proper attribution. APS reviews APCs regularly to ensure that it offers a reasonable and cost-effective publishing option for authors in line with APS’s status as a not-for-profit society publisher.
- APS authors are free to post the final version of their articles on their laboratory, institutional or departmental web sites.
- APS offers authors from lower-income countries the opportunity to publish open access at no cost by automatically offering APC waivers for articles accepted into all hybrid and gold open access titles. Learn more here.
Editorial Board
The PRAB Editorial Board is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors in consultation with APS units and European Physical Society groups and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms, advising the editorial staff throughout the review and formal appeal processes.
Editorial Team
PRAB is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions and research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRAB acceptance criteria.
High Visibility and Impact
PRAB authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work in this open-access accelerator science and technology journal. PRAB editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:
- Special Editions: PRAB publishes Conference Editions, which are associated with accelerator conferences, and Special Editions and Collections, which collate the work of groups and collaborations.
- Editors’ Suggestions: Selected papers are chosen as Editors’ Suggestions to direct readers to interesting, important, and well-written articles in areas of research beyond their usual interests. They garner, on average, more downloads and citations than other papers published in the journal and are more frequently covered by news outlets.
- Featured in Physics: Editors regularly notify Physics, APS’s daily online news and commentary publication, about important papers, resulting in coverage in the forms of Synopsis, Focus, or Viewpoint.
- Publicity: APS promotes press-worthy papers from its journals to journalists through a weekly Tip Sheet, resulting in frequent coverage in industry publications and the popular press, such as Physics World and Business Insider.
- Indexing: ISI (Science Citation Index®), Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar
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Editorial and Publishing Policies
All journals published by APS follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
PRAB is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number, for example, Journal 1, XXXXXX (2020).
PRAB editors can decide to accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.