Suggested Reading

Edwards, D.A., and M.J. Syphers, 1993. An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators. 2nd ed. New York, New York: Wiley. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527617272.

Edwards, D.A., and M.J. Syphers, website with a lot of extra material: Physics of Accelerators and Particle Beams

CERN-94-01-v1: Basic Course on Accelerator Optics (by multiple authors)

Lecture notes by Linda Spentzouris:

Relativity (relativity.pdf): Review of formulas for relativistic motion
Overview (overview.pdf): introduction, particle sources, large accelerator complexes, manipulating particles, accelerating structures, circular machines,
Magnet elements (magnet_elements.pdf): electromagnets (dipoles, quadrupoles), calculating magnetic fields, magnetic field expansion
Accelerating structures (accelerating_structures.pdf): accelerating structures, resonant modes, Feynman derivation of electric field in resonant cylindrical cavities
Longitudinal dynamics (long_dynamics.pdf): longitudinal beam structure, difference and differential equations, energy error to travel time error, phase space trajectories, synchrotron frequency
Transverse dynamics (xverse_dynamics.pdf): magnetic fields, equations for transverse motion, machine tune and the Twiss parameters, transfer maps
Emittance (emit_lect.pdf): particle distributions, phase space, high energy beams, transverse emittance from Hill's equation, normalized emittance
Errors and corrections (corr_lect.pdf): dipole errors and correction, gradient errors and correction, momentum dependent effects, transverse resonanses