Étienne Forest 2006 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 5321 doi:10.1088/0305-4470/39/19/S03
Étienne Forest
Show affiliationsThis paper is a very personal view of the field of geometric integration in accelerator physics—a field where often work of the highest quality is buried in lost technical notes or even not published; one has only to think of Simon van der Meer Nobel prize work on stochastic cooling—unpublished in any refereed journal. So I reconstructed the relevant history of geometrical integration in accelerator physics as much as I could by talking to collaborators and using my own understanding of the field. The reader should not be too surprised if this account is somewhere between history, science and perhaps even fiction.
Accelerators, beams and electromagnetism
Issue 19 (12 May 2006)
Received 12 September 2005, in final form 7 March 2006
Published 24 April 2006
Étienne Forest 2006 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 5321
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