PHYS 573 - Beam Physics I

Course Syllabus

Instructor: Assist. Prof. Bela Erdelyi

Faraday West 225

erdelyi@nicadd.niu.edu

(815) 753-6484

Lectures: 4:30 - 5:45 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays

in Faraday 227

Office hours: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment

Textbook: Lecture notes

Optional: W. Wiedemann, Particle Accelerator Physics I, Springer, 2003

Online resources: http://uspas.fnal.gov/lect_note.html

http://uspas.fnal.gov/book.html

http://cas.web.cern.ch/cas/CAS_Proceedings-DB.html

Grading: based on 4 sets of homework

Homework Set 1

Homework Set 2

Homework Set 3

Homework Set 4

Material to be covered

Chapter 1: Introduction

1. What is Beam Physics?

2. Production of beams

3. Historical overview of accelerators

4. Glass optics

Chapter 2: Charged Particles in Electromagnetic Fields

1. Fields and potentials

2. Equations of the motion

3. Transfer matrices of common elements

Chapter 3: Properties of Maps and Devices

1. Description and application of map symmetries

2. Specific charged particle optics devices

Chapter 4: Periodic Transport

1. The linear theory

2. Invariant and beam ellipses

3. Phase space action of elements

Chapter 5: Glimpse at Nonlinear Beam Dynamics

1. Nonlinear effects and aberrations

2. Computational beam physics

3. Differential Algebraic methods

4. Symplectic geometry and integration