CERN Accelerator School: Cyclotrons, linacs and applications

When the CERN Accelerator School (CAS) was set up over ten years ago it was expected that its job of training a new generation of accelerator scientists would slacken off after a few years as recruitment eased back. It has therefore been a puzzle to explain why, a decade later, there is still a steady flow of 200 or 300 participants a year coming to CAS Courses. The explanation seems to be that the ''graduates'' are from the many laboratories considerably smaller than CERN and from university physics departments and hospitals where accelerators are used. There are also factories and even production lines where small accelerators are produced