E. D. Courant

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

E. D. Courant is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, E. D. Courant has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 46 papers in Aerospace Engineering and 32 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in E. D. Courant's work include Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (53 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (45 papers) and Superconducting Materials and Applications (32 papers). E. D. Courant is often cited by papers focused on Particle Accelerators and Free-Electron Lasers (53 papers), Particle accelerators and beam dynamics (45 papers) and Superconducting Materials and Applications (32 papers). E. D. Courant collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Russia. E. D. Courant's co-authors include Hartland S. Snyder, M. Stanley Livingston, C. Pellegrini, W. Żakowicz, Andrew M. Sessler, L. G. Ratner, T. Roser, A. D. Krisch, F. Sperisen and T. Rinckel and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Annals of Physics and Review of Scientific Instruments.

In The Last Decade

E. D. Courant

61 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron 1958 2026 1980 2003 1958 200 400 600
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron
    1958 719 citations E. D. Courant, Hartland S. Snyder Annals of Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
E. D. Courant United States 15 1.0k 891 526 516 328 69 1.6k
R.L. Gluckstern United States 22 883 0.9× 723 0.8× 609 1.2× 632 1.2× 185 0.6× 118 1.7k
Helmut Wiedemann United States 19 1.2k 1.2× 773 0.9× 681 1.3× 456 0.9× 265 0.8× 85 1.8k
Alexander W. Chao United States 20 1.6k 1.6× 1.3k 1.4× 820 1.6× 696 1.3× 391 1.2× 81 2.2k
M. Tigner United States 13 958 1.0× 810 0.9× 443 0.8× 411 0.8× 339 1.0× 93 1.4k
J.D. Lawson United Kingdom 14 565 0.6× 509 0.6× 618 1.2× 785 1.5× 106 0.3× 56 1.4k
R. Siemann United States 24 1.1k 1.1× 724 0.8× 1.0k 2.0× 2.0k 3.9× 185 0.6× 162 2.7k
Hartland S. Snyder United States 8 684 0.7× 617 0.7× 361 0.7× 280 0.5× 201 0.6× 12 1.0k
A. Tollestrup United States 20 354 0.4× 320 0.4× 263 0.5× 847 1.6× 471 1.4× 90 1.5k
A.N. Skrinsky Russia 20 566 0.6× 292 0.3× 386 0.7× 976 1.9× 130 0.4× 99 1.7k
C. K. Sinclair United States 28 939 0.9× 524 0.6× 751 1.4× 1.5k 2.9× 713 2.2× 118 2.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of E. D. Courant

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chao, Alexander W. & E. D. Courant. (2007). Spin echo in synchrotrons. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams. 10(1). 2 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D., J. Scott Berg, D. Trbojevic, R. Talman, & A. Garren. (2004). A comparison of several lattice tools for computation of orbit functions of an accelerator. 5. 3485–3487. 3 indexed citations
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MacKay, W. W., et al.. (2002). Mapping out the full spin resonance structure of RHIC. PACS2001. Proceedings of the 2001 Particle Accelerator Conference (Cat. No.01CH37268). 4. 3177–3179. 3 indexed citations
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Syphers, M., E. D. Courant, W. Fischer, et al.. (2002). Helical dipole magnets for polarized protons in RHIC. Proceedings of the 1997 Particle Accelerator Conference (Cat. No.97CH36167). 3. 3359–3361. 6 indexed citations
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Trbojevic, D., K.Y. Ng, E. D. Courant, et al.. (1996). Design of the muon collider isochronous storage ring lattice. AIP conference proceedings. 367. 269–278. 3 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D., et al.. (1993). SYNCH-status and recent use at SSCL. AIP conference proceedings. 297. 403–407. 1 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D., et al.. (1990). Tolerance of imperfections in high-energy circular accelerators for polarized protons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 41(1). 292–302. 18 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D.. (1989). Helical Siberian snakes. AIP conference proceedings. 187. 1085–1092. 4 indexed citations
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Parsa, Z., E. D. Courant, & S. Tepikian. (1987). SECOND ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY FOR ACCELERATORS. CERN Bulletin. 22. 205–230. 2 indexed citations
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Tepikian, S., et al.. (1986). Particle spin tune in a partially excited snake. AIP conference proceedings. 145. 185–188. 1 indexed citations
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Claus, J., et al.. (1983). On Improving the Chromatic Effects of Storage Rings with Antisymmetric Insertions. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 30(4). 2451–2453. 3 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D., et al.. (1982). Introduction to accelerator theory. AIP conference proceedings. 87. 1–61. 3 indexed citations
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Terwilliger, Kent, Donald G. Crabb, A. D. Krisch, et al.. (1981). Acceleration of Polarized Protons in the Brookhaven AGS. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 28(3). 2031–2033. 4 indexed citations
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Kubischta, W., et al.. (1978). Report of working group on accelerator problems. AIP conference proceedings. 42. 41–46. 2 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D. & Andrew M. Sessler. (1966). Transverse Coherent Resistive Instabilities of Azimuthally Bunched Beams in Particle Accelerators. Review of Scientific Instruments. 37(11). 1579–1588. 33 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D.. (1965). Beam Instabilities in Circular Accelerators. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 12(3). 550–555. 8 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D. & Hartland S. Snyder. (1958). Theory of the alternating-gradient synchrotron. Annals of Physics. 3(1). 1–48. 719 indexed citations breakdown →
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Courant, E. D.. (1956). Non-linearities in the AG synchrotron. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 254–261. 4 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D.. (1954). Interaction of High-Energy Pions with Nuclei. Physical Review. 94(4). 1081–1082. 15 indexed citations
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Courant, E. D.. (1951). Direct Photodisintegration Processes in Nuclei. Physical Review. 82(5). 703–709. 119 indexed citations

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