Accelerator Radiation Physics for Personnel and Environmental Protection

"The book begins with a nice review of basic concepts in both radiation safety and accelerator physics that ranges from tracing the evolution of radiation safety standards through how radiation fields are produced around accelerators to how beams of charged particles are magnetically focused. After dispensing with the basics, the book goes on to discuss prompt radiation fields from electrons and from protons and ions, and it includes a chapter on phenomena that are unique to low-energy radiation… Of particular interest, however, were the chapters about induced radioactivity… Rounding out this book are chapters on radiation shielding and radiation protection instrumentation… The book itself (including the electronic version) is well done.

The graphics are crisp, text (even smaller fonts) is easy to read, and the book just looks good.

Each section includes not only a written description of the subject that delves fairly deeply into the physics underlying even the seemingly mundane aspects of work at these facilities. This is accompanied by a mathematical description as well… In addition, each section includes a question set with questions of varying complexity and difficulty. In fact, I should have mentioned earlier that this is not only a great reference book but is also the first new graduate-level textbook on this topic since the classic tome by Patterson and Thomas, published in 1973."
- P. Andrew Karam in Health Physics Journal (vol 121, 2021).