U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Education in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology
Course Materials - University of Tennessee, Knoxville - January 2014
Control Room Accelerator Physics
course given by Chris Allen, Tom Pelaia and John Galambos, Oak Ridge National Lab
Day 1
- Course Outline
- Overview of Accelerators and Accelerator Control
- Relation of High Level Applications to Other Systems
- Accelerator View for the Physicist/Developer
- Installing Open XAL at Command Line
- Installing Open XAL at Command Line (ver. 2)
- Introduction to Open XAL
Day 2
- Lectures Outline
- Introduction to Linear Algebra
- Introduction to Control Theory
- Introduction to Linear Beam Optics
- XAL Online Model Primer
- Magnets
Day 3
- The Software Process: Software Engineering and XAL
- High-Level Application Design
- Mathematical Programming and the XAL Solver
- A Primer on the XAL Solver
- Open Xal Architecture
Day 4