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Ion beams in focus

The physics of ion beams contains aspects of charged particle optics, statistical mechanics and plasma and atomic physics; this was the view presented by Dr J D Lawson (Rutherford Laboratory) at the international conference on low energy ion beams organised by the Atomic Collisions in Solids Group of The Institute of Physics and held at the University of Salford in September. Indeed the opinion widely expressed by delegates was that the conference offered a relatively rare opportunity to exchange and discuss a diversity of interdisciplinary skills at international level.