• USPAS -- Fundamentals
  • Winter 2018 USPAS Session
  • Course Syllabus
  • 1 Mon: Introductions
    • 1.1 Getting Started
    • 1.2 Review of Course Prerequisites
    • 1.3 Accelerators and Beams
    • 1.4 Steering and Focusing Charged Particles
  • 2 Tue: Transverse Motion
    • 2.1 Guiding Particles Toward the Ideal Trajectory
    • 2.2 Phase Space Distributions and Ellipses
    • 2.3 Courant-Snyder Parameterization
  • 3 Wed: Longitudinal Motion
    • 3.1 Accelerating Structures
    • 3.2 Longitudinal Focusing
    • 3.3 Transverse Effects of Longitudinal Motion
  • 4 Thu: Motion through Periodic Systems
    • 4.1 General Comments
    • 4.2 Transverse Stability
    • 4.3 Longitudinal Stability
  • 5 Fri: Beam Manipulations
    • 5.1 Beam Optics Modules
    • 5.2 Longitudinal Manipulations
    • 5.3 A Synchrotron and a Linac
  • 6 Mon: Errors and Adjustments
    • 6.1 Linear Errors and Adjustments
    • 6.2 Nonlinear Errors and Resonances
  • 7 Tue: Synchrotron Radiation
    • 7.1 Physics of Incoherent Synchrotron Radiation
    • 7.2 Storage Ring Light Sources
    • 7.3 X-Ray Free Electron Lasers
  • 8 Wed: Challenging Liouville
    • 8.1 Emittance Dilution Effects
    • 8.2 Introduction to Intensity Dependent Effects
    • 8.3 Beam Instrumentation and Diagnostics
  • 9 Thu: Wrapping Up
    • 9.1 A Facility Overview and Operational Considerations
    • 9.2 – Spare Lecture –
    • 9.3 Outlook for the Field
    • 9.4 REVIEW
  • 10 Fri: Final Exam
    • 10.1 FINAL EXAM
    • 10.2 APS/DPB
  • Laboratory Sessions
  • Homework Problems
  • Suggested Reading
  • Appendix
  • A Using Mathcad
    • Exercise 1 - Basic equation editing, calculations, and graphing
    • Exercise 2 – Matrices
    • Helpful Hints
  • B Using FEMM
    • B.1 FEMM
    • B.2 Obtaining FEMM
    • B.3 FEMM Magnetostatic Tutorial
  • C Getting to Know R
    • C.1 Doing Simple Calculations
    • C.2 Making Simple Plots
    • C.3 Creating Random Distributions
    • C.4 Decisions and Loops
    • C.5 Matrix Manipulations
    • C.6 Reading/Writing Data
    • C.7 Dataframes
    • C.8 And Much, Much … Much, Much More
  • D Using MAD-X
    • D.1 Downloading MAD-X
      • D.1.1 On Linux (all distributions)
      • D.1.2 On MacOSX (starting from Leopard)
      • D.1.3 On Windows (starting from Windows XP)
    • D.2 Running MAD-X
    • D.3 MAD-X Example
  • E Some Notes On Ellipses
    • E.1 Area of an Ellipse
    • E.2 Equation of Ellipse – Matrix Notation
    • E.3 Particle Distributions and the Sigma Matrix
    • E.4 Courant-Snyder Parameters and Emittance
    • E.5 A Numerical Example
    • E.6 Propagation of Courant-Snyder Parameters
    • E.7 Extension to Multiple Dimensions
  • References
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Fundamentals of Accelerator Physics and Technology

Laboratory Sessions

Lab Schedule

Laboratory Session Worksheets:

  • Dipole Magnet
  • BPM and Toroid
  • Emittance Issues
  • Longitudinal Dynamics
  • Quadrupole Magnet
  • RF Cavities
  • Transverse Dynamics
    • Phase Space Propagation + R code

Helpful Material:

Below are links to reference material pertinent to some of the laboratory exercises.

  • Using Mathcad
    • pdf
  • Using FEMM
  • POISSON/SUPERFISH Manual
  • Function Generator Manual
  • Network Analyzer Intro
  • Network Analyzer Basics
  • Instrumentation Notes
  • BPM Notes