Impedance of accelerator components

As demands for high luminosity and low emittance particle beams increase, an understanding of the electromagnetic interaction of these beams with their vacuum chamber environment becomes more important in order to maintain the quality of the beam. This interaction is described in terms of the wake field in time domain, and the beam impedance in frequency domain. These concepts are introduced, and related quantities such as the loss factor are presented. The broadband Q=1 resonator impedance model is discussed. Perturbation and coaxial wire methods of measurement of real components are reviewed. copyright 1997 American Institute of Physics