Strong focusing (Courant-Livingston-Snyder 1952)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the accelerator-physics subtree

Courant-Livingston-Snyder 1952: alternating-gradient quadrupoles focus in both planes; enabled compact synchrotrons; Twiss parameters alpha, beta, gamma describe transverse-phase-space envelope.

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