2011 Accelerator Physics Lectures
Todd Satogata (satogata@jlab.org)
MePAS: Mexican Particle Accelerator School [website]
Guanajuato, Mexico
Sep 26-Oct 7 2011
- Some handy computer tools (Mathematica, Maple, etc)
- Textbook errata for Conte/MacKay
- The Physics of Electron Storage Rings by Matt Sands
- Theory of the Alternating-Gradient Synchrotron by E.D. Courant and H.S. Snyder
- Wed Sep 28: Lecture 1-2 slides [10 Mb pdf]
Relativity/EM, particle motion in uniform fields, cyclotron introduction
Equations of motion for weak focusing, transport matrices, drifts, dipole magnets
- Thu Sep 28: Lecture 3 slides [3.2 Mb pdf]
Dipole rbends/sbends and edge focusing, quadrupoles and thin lenses
Lattice introduction, concatenating quadrupoles and dipoles
- Fri Sep 29: Lecture 4 slides [2.57 Mb pdf]
Emittance, phase space, Liouville's theorem, transport matrix properties
Periodic lattices: FODO, phase advance, tunes, beta function parameterization, chromaticity
- Sat Sep 30: Lecture 5 slides [1.78 Mb pdf]
Dispersion, FODO Dispersion, Dispersion Suppression,
Minimum Emittance Lattices from Andy Wolski, CERN Accelerator School, Erice, April 2011
- Mon Oct 2: Lecture 6 slides [3 Mb pdf]
Transition energy, Longitudinal Motion, Cross Sections, Touschek Effect,
Touschek Survey from Carlo Bocchetta, CERN Accelerator School
- Mon Oct 2: Compton Sources/Medical Applications slides [22 Mb pdf]
- Tue Oct 3: Lecture 7 slides [3.2 Mb pdf]
Errors, Nonlinear Dynamics, Comments on Putting It All Together
Last update: 4 Oct 2011