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Course Materials - Colorado State University - June 2013

Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology
with Simulations and Measurements Lab (undergraduate level)

course given by William Barletta, MIT/USPAS; Mei Bai, Brookhaven National Lab; Elvin Harms, Fermilab

• Accelerator Terms
  
  
• Reference Material: FEL Physics Summary

Lectures given by William Barletta:

• Lecture 1 - Motivations and Preliminaries
  
  
• Lecture 2 - The Development of Accelerator Concepts
  
  
• Lecture 3 - Properties of Beams
  
  
• Lecture 4 - Errors and Deviations from the Design Orbit
  
  
• Lecture 5 - Limiting Phenomena in Rings: Coherent & Incoherent Effects
  
  
• Lecture 6 - RF Accelerators: Synchronism Conditions
  
  
• Lecture 7 - RF Linacs
  
  
• Lecture 8 - Synchrotron Radiation

Lectures given by Mei Bai:

• Introduction to RF Cavity
  
  
• Magnets and Lattices
  
  
• Effects of Errors

Labs by Elvin Harms:

• Laboratory and Computer Session - Dipole Magnet
  
  
• Laboratory Session - Quadrupole Magnet
  
  
• Laboratory Session - Beam Position Monitor & Toroid/Wall Current Monitor
  
  
• Laboratory Session - Measurements and Analysis of Simple Microwave Cavities
  
  
• Computer Session - Transverse Dynamics
  
  
• Computer Session - Longitudinal Motion
  
  
• Computer Session - Emittance Issues: Synchrotron Radiation & Matching