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SLAC-PUB-7866
Relevance of Plasma Science to Particle Accelerators
Abstract
In following the theme of this Symposium, "Plasma Science and Its
Applications," we may be suggesting to some readers that the "other"
applications of Plasma Science somehow justify the existence of a
field traditionally devoted to fusion energy. In fact, we do not
believe that plasma science can or should be justified for its
spin-off contributions. Nevertheless, the unity of science would be
seriously threatened by a precipitous decline in the support for
plasma science. It is that unity which repeatedly has been verified as
one looks for how advances in one field are crucial to several other
seemingly fundamentally different fields. Thus it is in this case, as a
representative of the community of Particle Accelerator Scientists,
that we show four significant areas in which the methods and the
results of plasma science have been applied to Accelerator Science. We
have deliberately skipped plasma ion sources which are perhaps the
most obvious application of plasmas to accelerators. Two of our four
examples are cases in which the computational methods of plasma
science have been adopted, and two are examples in which the plasmas
themselves are employed. One of each category are now actively in use
and the other one in each category is being used to develop or design
new devices.
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