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CHAPTER 1<br />

Introduction<br />

An increasing number of scientific applications require intense electron beams<br />

of superior quality (extremely small 6-dimensional phase space), for the investiga-<br />

tion of fundamental processes as well as the generation of highly coherent, high<br />

average brightness photon beams. These applications include electron-ion colliders<br />

for nuclear and particle physics research, and synchrotron radiation sources and free<br />

electron lasers (FEL) for the generation of photon beams for atomic and molecular<br />

physics and biology. Traditionally the demands for beams with these characteris-<br />

tics have been met by storage rings, which over the years have been performing at<br />

increasingly high quality. However, the ultimate performance of storage rings is lim-<br />

ited by the fact that electrons are stored for many hours in an equilibrium state. The<br />

equilibrium between radiation damping and quantum excitation sets a fundamental<br />

limit on the minimum emittance and bunch length that can be achieved.<br />

On the other hand, the linear accelerator (linac), another traditional acceler-<br />

ator, can deliver beams with very small emittance, energy spread, and very short<br />

bunch length, as these properties are established by phenomena in the low-energy<br />

electron source and can be well preserved during acceleration to high energy. How-<br />

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