PHYS 4456 - [Introduction to Accelerator Physics and Technology]

(PBS)

Spring. 3 credits.

Prerequisite: PHYS 3323 or PHYS 3327 and PHYS 3314 or PHYS 3318. Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with PHYS 7656.

Staff.

This course covers fundamental physical principles of particle accelerators and enabling technologies, with a focus on basic effects in linear and circular accelerations as used for elementary particle collision experiments and for X-ray sources. At the level of The Physics of Particle Accelerators by K. Wille.