Preface

The 13th International Conference on High-Power Particle Beams (BEAMS 2000) took place in Nagaoka, Japan, on June 25 – 30, 2000. The conference session was held at Hotel New Otani Nagaoka. As is similar to the previous BEAMS conferences, the conference proceeded in a single session, and the papers were given by oral (invited and contributed) and poster presentations. The conference covered the topics on the physics and technology associated with intense pulsed charged particle beams, which involved pulsed power and accelerator technology, pulsed ion and electron beams, diodes, inertial confinement fusion, electron beams, pulsed radiation sources, liner implosions, free electron lasers, high-power microwave, beam-target interaction, diagnostics, models and simulations, X-ray sources, z-pinches, and various industrial applications. The most noticeable movement at BEAMS 2000 was that the number of the papers in the industrial applications increases significantly. Particularly, novel applications were proposed and discussed using pulsed power and particle beams, such as in materials science, chemical, medical, and biological science, civil and environmental engineering, and so on. Totally, 261 papers were presented (58 oral and 203 posters) by 262 participants from 13 countries. Most of these papers are included in these proceedings and some of them are published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 40, No. 2B (Special Issue on Pulsed Power and Beam Technology, February, 2001).