U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
Education in Beam Physics and Accelerator Technology
Course Materials - Colorado State University - June 2016
Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma Synergy and Bridges
course given by Andrei Seryi, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford, Imperial College London and Royal Holloway University of London, UK and Aakash Sahai, Imperial College London.
Monday
- Lecture 0: Organizational matters - slides
- Lecture 1: Basics of accelerators and the art of inventiveness - file
- Lecture 2: Transverse dynamics - file
- Lecture 3: Synchrotron radiation - file
- Project 1: Analysis of inventions - file
- Illustrations of 40 TRIZ/AS-TRIZ principles - file
- Project 3 (start): Compact ring-based X-ray source with laser plasma injection - file
- Homework 1 - file
Tuesday
- Lecture 4: Synergies between accelerators, lasers and plasma - file
- Lecture 5: Conventional acceleration - file
- Lecture 6: Plasma acceleration - file
- Project 2: Laser-plasma acceleration betatron X-ray source - file
- Project 3 (continue): Compact ring-based X-ray source with laser plasma injection - file
- On selection of laser and plasma parameters for Project 3 - file
- Homework 2 - file
Wednesday
- Lecture 7: Light sources - file
- Slides relevant for selection of parameters of superconducting insertion devices - slides
- Lecture 8: Free Electron Lasers - file
- Lecture 9: Proton plasma acceleration - file
- Project 3 (continue): Compact ring-based X-ray source with laser plasma injection - file
- Homework 3 - file
Thursday
- Lecture 10: Advanced beam manipulation I (short and small) - file
- Lecture 11: Advanced beam manipulation II (stability) - file
- Lecture 12: Inventions and innovation in science & future directions - file
- Project 3 (continue): Compact ring-based X-ray source with laser plasma injection - file
- Exam preparation time
Friday
- Exam - file
Reading materials for the course:
- Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma, Andrei Seryi, CRC Press, 2015
- Unifying Physics 1-st edition Open Access and oncoming 2-nd edition