PHYS 790D Fall 2019

— Essential Beam Physics Calculations

Mike Syphers¹

last update: 10 Dec 2019

PHYS 790D, Fall 2019

Northern Illinois University Department of Physics

Syllabus

PHYS 790-D Special Topics in Physics – Beam Physics

• “Essential Beam Physics Calculations”

Cross Reference: PHYS 459 Special Problems in Physics (by permission)

Details:

• Fall Semester 2019
• Credits: 3
• Meeting Time: Tuesday/Thursday 2:15-3:30
• Class Room: FR238
• Instructor: Prof. M.J. Syphers
  + La Tourette 204
  + msyphers@niu.edu
  
• Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00-11:00 a.m. or by appointment
• Prerequisites: Consent of Department

Textbooks and Software

Primary Textbook (pdf version provided by instructor):

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

Recommended Textbooks:

• S.Y. Lee, Accelerator Physics (Fourth Edition), Singapore: World Scientific (2019). https://doi.org/10.1142/11111 (Lee 2018)
• M. Conte and W. Mackay, An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators (Second Edition), Singapore: World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/6683. (Conte and MacKay 2008)

Software to be used in class (freely available online):

• LaTeX (The LaTeX Project), https://www.latex-project.org
• R (R Core Team 2016), https://www.r-project.org/ (R Core Team 2016)
• Rstudio (Rstudio 2019), https://www.rstudio.com
• FEMM (David Meeker, 2018), http://www.femm.info (Meeker 2018)
• MADX (Laurent Deniau 2017), http://mad.web.cern.ch/mad/

• G4beamline (Muons, Inc. 2017), http://public.muonsinc.com/Projects/G4beamline.aspx

• A good starter book for R: Andrie de Vries and Joris Meys, R for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons (2015)
• Another one: Mike McGrath, R for Data Analysis, In Easy Steps Limited (2018)

• Info on Rmarkdown: https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/

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