Section 2 Beams and Transport

2.1 Particle beams and phase space analyses

  • introduction slides
  • sources and beam production
  • transverse coordinates and distributions
  • some notes on phase space ellipses
  • secondary beam production (later: g4beamline)
  • Courant-Snyder parameters
  • some notes on generating particle distributions

2.2 Linear transverse (betatron) motion

  • beam transport slides
  • beam transport requirements
  • bending and focusing options
  • single pass systems
  • matrix approach
  • the standard FODO cell
  • a FODO example
  • analytical solution slides
  • periodic systems slides
  • multi-pass systems and stability
  • inclusion of momentum dispersion
  • tutorial on transport matrices

2.3 Lattice design and optimization