Physics 4456/7656: Introduction to Accelerator Physics and Technology
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Particle accelerators are some of the most complex instruments used for science. They are used for high energy physics, nuclear physics, x-ray science, in spectrometers, electron microscopes, and radiation therapy. These instruments have become so complex that an empirical approach to properties of the particle beams is by no means sufficient and a detailed theoretical understanding is necessary. This course introduces into theoretical aspects of charged particle beams and into the technology used for their acceleration.
Syllabus
- A short history and principles of particle accelerators
- Charged particles in electromagnetic fields
- Linear beam optics
- Linear beam optics in circular accelerators
- RF systems for particle acceleration
- Synchrotron radiation and radiative damping effects
Suggested Literature
- The Physics of Particle Accelerators, Klaus Wille, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN: 0198505493
- Particle Accelerator Physics, Helmut Wiedemann, Springer, 3nd edition, 2007, ISBN 3540490434
- Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering, Alexander Wu Chao and Maury Tigner, 2nd edition, World Scientific, ISBN: 9810238584
Lecture Notes
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- Lecture 1: Introduction; electrostatic accelerators, the betatron
- Lecture 2: RF accelerators
- Lecture 3: Particle Sources, injection, HEP, synchrotron light sources
- Lecture 4: Magnets
- Lecture 5: Multipole expansion, s.c. magnets
- Lecture 6: Equation of motion
- Lecture 7: Dispersion, focusing, achromat
- Lecture 8: Isochronous systems, transformation matrices
- Lecture 9: Thin lens, momentum compaction, twiss parameters
- Lecture 10: Phase space ellipse, emittance
- Lecture 11: Beam envelope, propagation of Twiss parameters
- Lecture 12: Periodic magnet sections, stability, tune
- Lecture 13: FODO, closed orbit
- Lecture 14: closed dispersion, dipole kicks, bumps
- Lecture 15: quadrupole errors, chromaticity
- Lecture 16: chromaticity correction, dynamic aperture, resonances
- Lecture 17: optical resonances
- Lecture 18: Waveguides
- Lecture 19: RF cavities: standing and traveling wave
- Lecture 20: RF cavities: circuit model, pillbox, HOMs
- Lecture 21: HOM damping, RF superconductivity, RF power sources
- Lecture 22: Synchrotron oscillations
- Lecture 23: Synchrotron oscillations, part 2
- Lecture 24: Synchrotron radiation
- Lecture 25: Damping effects
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