Introduction to particle accelerators
PHYS-448
Accelerators play a major role in elementary particle physics, structural and dynamical analysis of matter and particularly also in medicine and industry. The basics of accelerator theory and accelerator technology are presented. Innovative accelerator projects for research and application are discussed. In addition 1 lecture is devoted to visit the CERN laboratory and discuss on the operating accelerators: the Large Hadron Collider, the Antimatter Decellerator, the Synchro-Cyclotron and many more.
12th September - Accelerator Concepts, their History and their Applications
- Quiz 1 (File)
- Tutorial 1 (File)
- Solutions to tutorial 1 (File)
- Accelerator Concepts, their History and their Applications (File)
19th September - An Overview on Physics and Technology of Accelerators
- Quiz 2 (File)
- Tutorial 2 (File)
- Tutorial 2 solutions (File)
- L02_Overview on Physics and Technology of Accelerators (File)
26th September - Transverse Dynamics :: Equation of Motion and Solutions
- Quiz 3 (File)
- Tutorial 3 (File)
- Solutions of Tutorial 3 (File)
- Transverse Dynamics :: Equation of Motion and Solutions (File)
- Transverse Dynamics :: Equation of Motion and Solutions (File)
3rd October - Transverse Dynamics :: Lattice Design and Beam Properties
- Quiz 4 (File)
- Tutorial 4 (File)
- Solutions to Tutorial 4 (File)
- L04_transverse_dynamics_lattice_design (File)
10th October - Transverse Dynamics :: Lattice Imperfections and Hamilton Formalism
- Quiz 5 (File)
- Tutorial 5 (File)
- Solutions to Tutorial 5 (File)
- L05_Transverse_Dynamics_Lattice_Imperfections (File)
17th October - Longitudinal Dynamics in Circular Accelerators
31st October - Synchrotron Radiation and Electron Dynamics
7th November - Synchrotron Light Sources
14th November - Medical Application (Prof. M. Schippers, PSI)
- Short intro to python and notebooks (URL)
- Jupyter Notebook 1 (URL)
- Jupyter Notebook 1 Solutions (URL)
- Accelerators and Techniques in Hadron Therapy (File)
21st November - Particle Colliders
28th November - CERN Visit
This lecture is devoted to a visit to the CERN accelerators. The visit will take the full afternoon from 12:30-18:30. More details will follow later on depending on the availabilities at the CERN sites.
Possible machines we will be visiting and exploring are:
- Anti-proton Decelerator (https://home.cern/science/accelerators/antiproton-decelerator)
- The Low Energy Ion Ring LEIR (https://home.cern/science/accelerators/low-energy-ion-ring)
- The Compact Muon Solenoid Detector CMS (https://home.cern/science/experiments/cms)
- The Cyclotron
- The accelerators control Room CCC
5th December - Collective Effects
- Space Charge Reading by K. Schindl (URL)
- Collective Effects Lecture 2023 (URL)
- Lecture Collective Effects 2023 PDF (URL)
- Python lab 2 (File)
- Python lab 2 solution (File)