Entry requirements

120 credits with 30 credits in physics including Electromagnetic Field Theory, Mechanics III, Wave Mechanics and Mathematical Methods of Physics.

Learning outcomes

The course is intended for students planning to do research within the field of charged particle accelerators or who use accelerators in their field of research such as High-energy and nuclear physics or synchrotron radiation based physics.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• design simple beam transport systems for charged particles
• explain the operation of the most common technical components and diagnostic methods
• solve simple control and correction problems pertaining to accelerators
• explain limitations of different types of accelerators
• design simple accelerator vacuum systems.

Content

- Overview over different types of accelerators: Circular and linear, collider,

cooler rings, synchrotron light-sources, medical accelerators, cyclotrons.

- Transverse and longitudinal beam dynamics: matrix methods, emittance, beta functions,

dispersion phase-stability.

- Limitations due to space charge and instabilities.

- Technical components such as magnets, radio-frequency systems, vacuum, particle

sources and diagnostic for current, position and beam size.

Instruction

Lectures, lessons and field visits.

Assessment

Hand-in exercises and seminar.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.