Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams

Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams (PRST-AB) is an all-electronic journal published by the American Physical Society and available at http://prst-ab.aps.org/. The all-electronic nature of PRST-AB allows conference editions while maintaining thorough peer review and timely publication. In addition, it provides global access and archiving beyond that ordinarily offered by conference proceedings.

Workshop Papers: The PRST-AB template available through links on the PRST-AB home page is the required format for submissions. A complete collection of papers presented at the workshop will be edited by G. Rumolo and F. Zimmermann, posted on the workshop WWW site and published as a CERN report without any further review and will be distributed to all participants shortly after the workshop.

The Local Organizing Committee recommends that all contributors to the workshop consider submission to PRST-AB. Authors should submit to PRST-AB using the procedure found through links on the PRST-AB home page. Papers will be peer-reviewed through the normal refereeing procedure, and if accepted for publication they will be published as regular PRST-AB articles and as part of the ECLOUD 02 Conference Edition.

Publication will be timely; articles will be published as soon as they are ready with no delay waiting for other papers presented at the conference. In addition, the ECLOUD 02 Table of Contents and the Workshop WWW site will be updated each time a paper is published.

PRST-AB Criteria: Papers must contain important new results in science and/or technology. Confirmation of previously published results of unusual importance can be considered as new, as can significant null results. In general, authors should keep review material to a minimum. Even so, some review and reprise of past work is appropriate if the paper can be made more understandable and self-contained thereby. Papers cannot be duplicates of work submitted for publication to another journal. Material previously published, or submitted for publication, in a Letters journal or in conference proceedings can be the basis of an article in PRST-AB provided the submitted manuscript presents more information, enabling the reader to obtain an improved understanding of the subject.

 There are many reasons why you should consider publishing in the ECLOUD 02 Conference Edition.

1) PRST-AB is a peer reviewed, American Physical Society journal. Peer reviewed articles benefit from careful reading and criticism of a knowledgeable colleague.

2) PRST-AB is available to everyone without subscription or pay per view fees, and PRST-AB is an archival journal. The APS is committed to maintaining that availability even as computer technology and software change.

3) PRST-AB has no page limits, so this is the opportunity to write about your work without that limitation.

4) Your article will be published in a timely manner and grouped together with other work presented at the Mini-Workshop on Electron-Cloud Simulations for Proton and Positron Beams (ECLOUD 02).

We look forward to your contribution.

Contact Bob Siemann (Siemann@SLAC.Stanford.edu), the PRST-AB Editor, if you have general questions related to the PRST-AB policies and Frank Zimmermann (frank.zimmermann@cern.ch), if you have particular questions regarding publishing your paper in the Conference Edition.

Authors should note that their paper is for the ECLOUD 02 Conference Edition in the message accompanying submission to PRST-AB.

See http://prst-ab.aps.org/ for general information about Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams and http://prst-ab.aps.org/guidelin.html for guidelines for contributions.