PHYS 4456 - [Introduction to Accelerator Physics and Technology]

(PBS)

Spring. Next offered 2015-2016. 3 credits.

Prerequisite: PHYS 3323 or PHYS 3327 and PHYS 3314 or PHYS 3318. Co-meets with PHYS 7656.

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This course covers fundamental physical principles of particle accelerators. starting from an historical approach different accelerator concepts will be review. This includes electrostatic an acceleration with radio frequency fields in linear and circular accelerators. The lecture will cover the enabling technologies like magnets and cavities with an emphasis on the state-of the-art superconductivity in particle accelerators. The concepts of particle dynamics in accelerators, heating and cooling techniques and applications in nuclear physics, elementary particle physics and radiation physics will be included. At the level of The Physics of Particle Accelerators by K. Wille.