Vladimir Shiltsev received his PhD in Accelerator Physics in 1994 from Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia). From 1993 to 1995 he was a visiting scientist at the SSC Lab (Dallas, TX) and DESY (Hamburg, Germany). He has been at Fermilab since 1996, where he started the Tevatron Electron Lens project, and then was Head of the Tevatron Department from 2001 to 2005. He is also Founding Director of Fermilab’s Accelerator Physics Center (2007-present), Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Winner of 2004 European Accelerator Prize from European Physical Society.

• From the Contents: Part I Colliding Beams Method.- Beam Dynamics Issues in Hadron Supercolliders.- Part II Technology of Electron Lenses.- Major Requirements.- Part III Electron Lenses for Beam-Beam Compensation.- Long-range beam-beam compensation.- Part IV Electron Lenses for Beam Halo Collimation.- Part V Electron Lenses for Space-Charge Compensation.- Theory and Modeling of the SCC with Electron Lenses.- Part VI Other Applications of Electron Lenses.- Electron Lenses for Slow Extraction from Proton Synchrotrons.

“With an energetic writing style, in this book Vladimir Shiltsev presents a novel device for accelerators and storage rings. … the book is an excellent entry point for anyone who would like to become familiar with the concepts, technology and possible application of electron lenses. It is also a useful reference for many formulas, allowing for fast estimates, and for the published work on this topic – up to the date of publication.” (Wolfram Fischer, CERN Courier, cerncourier.com, November, 2016)