Syllabus

The student in this course will be guided in studies of particle beam transport and beam optical systems, with emphasis on sensitivity analyses and elements of system design. The student will be expected to learn, both through independent reading and through discussions with the instructor, the basic principles of particle beam dynamics relevant to the subject above, and to become proficient in the use of practical computer programs and programming environments used in the study of particle beam dynamics.

Homework problems, both analytical and computational, will be assigned or suggested in order to assist in the learning experience.

Principle text to be used in this course: D.A. Edwards and M.J. Syphers, “An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators”, Wiley (1993) (Edwards and Syphers 1993). Visit Wiley and Edwards and Syphers for more information.

Principle software packages to be used in this course:

By the end of the course the student should have acquired sufficient knowledge and skills to be able to perform basic analyses of lowest-order beam optical systems in terms of stable beam transport and control of beam quality.

References

Edwards, D.A., and M.J. Syphers. 1993. An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators. 2nd ed. New York, New York: Wiley. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527617272.

R Core Team. 2016. R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing. https://www.R-project.org/.

Laurent Deniau, et al. 2017. The Mad-X Program (Methodical Accelerator Design). https://madx.web.cern.ch.