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Master of Science Degree in Beam Physics and Technology

Below are categories of past USPAS graduate-level courses that were applicable for credit towards an MS degree in the IU/USPAS Master's Degree Program. P570 Accelerator Physics or an equivalent is generally offered every session. P571 and P671 courses may have various repeat intervals depending on demand, instructor availability, and limits of session capacity. Two to five year repetition periods are often typical for special and advanced topic courses.

P570 Introduction to Accelerator Physics (3 credits)

• Accelerator Physics
• Accelerator Physics Using Maple
• Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism for Accelerators
• Linear Accelerators
• Microwave Electron Accelerators
• Cyclotrons

P571 Special Topics in Physics of Beams (3 credits)

• Accelerator Instrumentation and Beam Measurement Laboratory
• Accelerator Mathematics
• Accelerator Physics and Accelerator Simulations, Advanced
• Accelerator Physics and Beam Measurements, Intermediate
• Accelerator Physics, Advanced Topics in
• Accelerator Physics, Intermediate
• Accelerator Physics, Special Topics in
• Accelerator Power Engineering
• Accelerator Vacuum Laboratory
• Applied Electromagnetism: Magnet and RF Cavity Design
• Beam Control and Manipulation
• Beam Dynamics Experiments on the University of Maryland Electron Ring
• Beam Dynamics Experiments
• Beam Experiments -- Methods and Theory
• Beam Instrumentation Laboratory at the Synchrotron Radiation Center (SRC)
• Beam Measurements, Manipulation and Instrumentation at an ERL FEL Driver
• Beam Optics
• Beam Physics with Intense Space Charge
• Charged Particle Beams, Measurement and Control of
• Collective Beam Instabilities
• Computational Accelerator Physics
• Computational Methods in Accelerator Physics
• Computational Methods in Beam Dynamics
• Computational Methods in Electromagnetism
• Control Theory with Applications to Accelerators (two-week class)
• Digital Processing in Accelerators, Advanced
• EPICS Control Systems
• Experimental Beam Physics
• Hamiltonian and Lie Algebra Methods to Analyze and Design Accelerator Beamlines, The Use of
• High Current Beam Transport
• High-Intensity RF Linear Accelerators
• Intense Beam Physics - Space-Charge, Halo and Related Topics
• Laser Principles and Devices
• Linear Collider Facilities, Physics and Techniques of
• Management of Scientific Laboratories 
• Microwave Measurement and Beam Instrumentation Laboratory
• Microwave Sources
• Microwaves for Accelerator Engineers and Physicists
• Plasma Physics of Beams
• Proton and Ion Linear Accelerators
• Proton Linear Accelerators with Simulations Lab, Fundamentals of
• Pulsed Power High Current Beams
• RF Cavity and Component Design for Accelerators
• RF Superconductivity: Physics, Technology and Applications
• RF Superconductivity for Particle Accelerators
• Simulation of Beam and Plasma Systems
• SRF Technology: Practices and Hands-On Measurements
• Synchrotron Light Optics
• Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers for Bright X-Rays

P671 Advanced Topics in Accelerator Physics (1.5 credit half courses, must be taken in pairs)

• Accelerator and Beam Diagnostics
• Accelerator and Optics for Proton Therapy Applications
• Accelerator Magnet Engineering
• Accelerator Magnet Engineering - Conventional Magnets, Material, Alignment and Power Supply
• Accelerator Physics and Accelerator Simulations, Advanced
• Accelerator Physics for Radiography
• Accelerator Power Electronics Engineering
• Accelerator Vacuum Engineering
• Accelerator Vacuum System Design
• Beam by Design: Advanced Manipulation of Relativisitc Electrons with Lasers
• Beam Control and Manipulation
• Beam Cooling
• Beam Delivery System and Interaction Region of a Linear Collider
• Beam Diagnostics Using Synchrotron Radiation: Theory and Practice
• Beam Dynamics, Advanced
• Beam Instabilities
• Beam Loss and Machine Protection
• Beam Measurements, Manipulation and Instrumentation at an ERL FEL Driver
• Beam Sources
• Beam Stability at Light Sources
• Beam Targets (and Collimation), High Power
• Beam-Based Diagnostics
• Cathode Physics
• CESR Beam Measurements and Diagnostics
• Coherent Terahertz Radiation, Accelerator-Based Sources of
• Collective Beam Instabilities
• Collective Effects and Wakefields
• Collective Effects in Beam Dynamics
• Collider Interaction Regions for High Energy and Nuclear Physics Applications
• Colliders for High Energy and Nuclear Physics
• Computational Accelerator Physics, Modern
• Computational Accelerator Physics
• Computational Methods in Beam Dynamics
• Computational Methods in Electromagnetism
• Control Room Accelerator Physics
• Control Theory with Applications to Accelerators and RF Systems (one-week class)
• Cryogenic Engineering
• Cryogenic Engineering, Principles of
• CW & High Brightness Electron Sources
• Cyclotron Design and Construction, Practical Issues in
• Cyclotrons and FFAGs, Physics and Technology of
• Cyclotrons and Their Applications, Compact Superconducting
• Cyclotrons and Their Design
• Cyclotrons: Beam Dynamics and Design
• Damping Ring Design and Physics Issues
• Detector Physics and Measurements Lab, Fundamentals of
• Electromagnetic Radiation
• Electron and Ion Source Design, Numerical Methods for
• Electron Injectors for 4th Generation Light Sources
• Electron Injectors for Light Sources, High Brightness
• Electron Sources, High Brightness, Ultra-Fast
• Electron Storage and Damping Rings, Design of
• Engineering for Accelerators
• EPICS Control Systems
• Experimental Accelerators, Topics in
• Femtosecond Electron Sources for Ultrafast Sciences
• Fourth Generation Light Sources I : X-Ray Laser
• Fourth Generation Light Sources II : ERLs and Thomson Scattering
• Free Electron Lasers, Physics of High-Gain
• Free-Electron Lasers, The Physics of
• Free-Electron Lasers: Theory and Practice
• Free Electron Lasers, VUV and X-Ray
• Hadron Accelerators for Cancer Treatment
• Hamiltonian and Lie Algebra Methods to Analyze and Design Accelerator Beamlines, The Use of
• Hard X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation Optics
• Heavy-Ion Driven Hohlraum Targets, Physics of
• High Brightness Accelerators
• High-Intensity Accelerators, Physics and Design of
• High Power Targets for Accelerators
• Hazard Analysis and Decision Making
• High-Energy Physics Principles and Instrumentation
• High Gradient RF Structures
• Impedance Calculations, Analytic Methods for
• Induction Accelerators, High Current Beam Physics in
• Induction Accelerators
• Industrial Applications of Accelerators
• Injection and Extraction of Beams
• Integrable Particle Dynamics in Accelerators
• Intense Beam Physics: Space-Charge, Halo and Related Topics
• Intense Pulsed Electron and Ion Beams
• Ion Injectors for Accelerators
• Ion Sources and Low-Energy Ion Beams
• Ion Sources, Fundamentals of
• Iron Bound Magnets
• Iron Dominated Electromagnet Design
• Large Scale Metrology of Accelerators
• Laser Applications to Accelerators
• Laser Physics and Technology
• Lasers and Plasma - Synergy and Bridges, Unifying Physics of Accelerators
• Laser-Driven Accelerators
• Laser-Plasma Accelerators
• Lattice Design, Practical
• Linear Accelerator Design for Free Electron Lasers
• Linear Accelerators
• Linear Collider Facilities, Physics and Techniques of
• Low-Beta Linear Accelerators with Simulations Lab, Fundamentals
• Low-Level Radio Frequency Systems, Technology and Applications to Particle Accelerators, Introduction to
• Machine Learning for Accelerators, Optimization and
• Magnetic Systems
• Magnetic Systems for Accelerators, Detectors and Insertion Devices
• Magnetic Systems: Insertion Device Design
• Magnetic Systems: Theory and Design for Accelerators and Detectors with Emphasis on Insertion Devices
• Magnets, Design of Room Temperature
• Management of Research Labs, Strategic
• Management of Scientific Laboratories
• Material Research with Accelerator-Based Neutron Sources
• MATLAB for Physics
• Mechanical Alignment
• Medical Accelerators
• Medical Accelerators and Radiological Physics
• Medical Applications of Accelerators and Beams
• Microwave Amplifiers, High Power
• Microwave Linear Accelerators
• Microwave Sources
• Microwaves for Accelerator Engineers and Physicists
• Modern Beam Diagnostics, Design and Engineering of
• Modern Dynamics
• Neutrino Beams
• Neutron and X-Ray Beamlines for Accelerator-Driven Sources, Design and Engineering of
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Collective Processes in High-Intensity Beams
• High-Gradient Accelerating Structures, Novel
• Particle Beam Optics Using Lie Algebra Methods
• Particle Collider Interaction Regions
• Plasma Physics Concepts in Beams
• Plasma Physics of Beams
• Practical Lattice Design
• Project Management for Scientists and Engineers
• Proton Linear Accelerators with Simulations Lab, Fundamentals of
• Pulsed Power Engineering
• Radiation Detection and Imaging for Medicine and Homeland Security
• Radiation from Relativistic Electrons and Free-Electron Lasers
• Radiation Physics of Accelerators
• Radiation Physics, Regulation and Management
• Recirculated and Energy Recovered Linear Accelerators
• Relativistic Electronics
• Response Matrix Analysis: Applications to Accelerator Orbit Control, Optics Diagnostics and Correction
• Response Matrix Measurements and Application to Storage Rings
• RF and Digital Signal Processing
• RF Engineering and Signal Processing
• RF Linac for High-Gain FEL
• RF Superconductivity
• RF Superconductivity, Principles of
• RF Superconductivity: Physics, Technology and Applications
• RF Systems
• Rings and Undulators for FELs and Light Sources, Physics and Engineering of
• Safety Systems, Controlling Risks
• Semiconductor Detector Systems
• Short Bunches in Accelerators, Measurement and Diagnostics of
• SNS - I, Front End and Linac
• SNS - II, Ring and Transport Systems
• Space-Charge Dominated Beam Transport and Acceleration
• Space-Charge Effects in Beam Transport
• Spin Dynamics in Particle Accelerators
• Storage Ring Design, Fundamentals of
• Storage Rings, Design of
• Storage Rings, Diffraction Limited
• Storage Rings, Electrostatic
• Storage Rings for Light Sources, Design of
• Strong Field Radiation, Introduction to
• Superconducting Accelerator Magnets
• Superconducting Linear Accelerators, Principles of
• Superconducting Magnets
• Superconducting Materials
• Superconducting Materials for High-Energy Physics
• Superconducting RF Applications
• Superconducting RF for High-β Accelerators 
• Superconducting RF for Storage Rings, ERLs and Linac-Based FELs
• Superconducting RF Technology
• Superconductivity, Superconducting Accelerator Magnets and RF Cavities, Basics of
• Synchrotron Radiation and Free Electron Lasers for Bright X-Rays
• Synchrotron Radiation in Materials Science, Applications of
• Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation and Applications
• System Safety and Safety Systems for Accelerators
• Timing and Synchrotronization with Applications to Accelerators, Fundamentals of
• Tritium, Accelerator Production of
• Unified Accelerator Libraries (UAL), Accelerator Simulation Using the
• Unifying Physics of Accelerators, Lasers and Plasma - Synergy and Bridges
• Vacuum Electron Devices
• Vacuum Science and Technology for Accelerator Vacuum Systems
• Vacuum Science and Technology for Particle Accelerators
• Vibrational Aspects of Accelerators
• VUV and X-ray Free Electron Lasers
• Wakefield Accelerators, Particle Driven
• Wakefields and Impedance: From Physical-Mathematical Analysis to Practical Applications, Fundamentals of
• X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
• X-Ray Sources, Accelerator
• Z-Pinches, Physics and Technology of