U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Education in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology
Accelerator Physics course
Sponsoring University:
The University of Texas at Austin
Course:
Accelerator Physics
Instructor:
S.Y. Lee, Indiana University
Overview of accelerator development and accelerator technologies. Transverse phase space motion and longitudinal synchrotron motion of a particle in an accelerator. Practical accelerator lattice design. Brief introduction to topics such as synchrotron radiation. Beam injection schemes, slow and fast beam extraction, beam instabilities and nonlinearities. Prerequisites: courses in electromagnetism and classical mechanics.