PHYS 7688 - [Topics in Accelerator Physics]

Spring. 3 credits. S-U grades only.

Next offered 2014-2015. Co-meets with PHYS 4488.

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.