Introduction in the basic concepts of the existing and relevant types of accelerators, dominant properties, applications, terminology.
1. Particle accelerators, centers of fundamental research, comercially available products for medical and technical applications 2. Electron- and ion sources 3. Electrostatic accelerators 4. Linear accelerators 5. Betatron 6. Cyclotron 7. Synchrotron 8. Alternating gradient focussing 9. Typical accelerators 10. Storage rings, colliding beam experiments 11. Outlook 12. National projects
