The flight of a relativistic charge in matter : insights calculations and practical applications of classical electromagnetism Klappentext: This book is about the energy loss and the coherent radiation emitted by a relativistic charge in matter. These phenomena locally deposited energy Cherenkov radiation and transition radiation are the basis of any charged particle detector able to discriminate charges by their velocity. This book describes these phenomena and how they are related. The fundamental field equations and first principles are used to derive the spectrum of energy loss signals and thence the velocity resolution that can be achieved. Two specific applications are then followed: the first shows that this resolution has been achieved in practice with a multi particle detector in the course of an experiment at CERN and the second shows how by including scattering the technique of ionisation cooling of accelerator beams may be reliably simulated. The book is based on a series of lectures given at the University of Oxford to graduate students in experimental particle physics. Some knowledge of mathematical physics at an undergraduate level is assumed specifically Maxwell’s equations and classical optics. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Part I: Building on Simple Ideas Chapter 1 Waves and Sources Part II Calculations in Classical Electromagnetism Chapter 2 The Influence of a Passing Charge Chapter 3 The Field of a Moving Charge Chapter 4 Radiation by the Apparent Angular Acceleration of Charge Chapter 5 The Dispersion and Absorption of Electromagnetic Waves Chapter 6 Energy Loss of a Charge Moving in a Medium Chapter 7 Scattering of a Charge Moving in a Medium Part III Two Practical Applications Chapter 8 Relativistic Particle Identification Chapter 9 Ionisation Beam Cooling List of Symbols Bibliography Index.