Overview

(45-50 min each + questions)

  1. Beams and Emittance — ellipses, ellipse parameters and emittance; the transport of beam through magnetic systems.
  2. Courant-Snyder approach to beam dynamics — the beta function and phase advance; matrices and calculations; stability; betatron tune; dispersion
  3. Steering (dipole) errors/adjustments; focusing (quadrupole) errors/adjustments; chromaticity and sextupoles; nonlinear motion, resonances, and slow extraction.
  4. Acceleration and cavities; longitudinal equations of motion and synchrotron oscillation; buckets, bunches, batches; manipulations.

Textbooks and Software

Recommended Reading:

  • Edwards, D.A., and M.J. Syphers, An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators. 2nd ed. New York, New York: Wiley (1993) (Edwards and Syphers 1993).

  • S.Y. Lee, Accelerator Physics (Fourth Edition), Singapore: World Scientific (2019) (Lee 2018).

  • M. Conte and W. Mackay, An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators (Second Edition), Singapore: World Scientific (Conte and MacKay 2008).

  • Also see: Some Tutorials

Software used in many examples:

  • R (R Core Team 2016).

  • Rstudio (RStudio 2019).

  • 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)

  1. Northern Illinois University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory↩