U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
America's National School of Accelerator Science and Technology
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:
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