PHYS 4488 - [Topics in Accelerator Physics]

(PBS)

Spring. 3 credits. S-U grades only.

Prerequisite: Electricity and Magnetism at the level of PHYS 3323 or PHYS 3327 and Classical Mechanics at the level of PHYS 3314 or PHYS 3318. Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with PHYS 7688.

Staff.

After an introduction to the history of particle accelerators and to their fundamental physical principles, special topics in accelerator physics will be covered. Such topics are microwave structures in particle acceleration, linear and nonlinear beam dynamics, collective effects and beam instabilities, characteristics of synchrotron radiation, a project in storage ring design, and experiments with charged particle beams at Cornell’s accelerator laboratory.