Summer 2022 USPAS session

U.S. Particle Accelerator School hosted by Michigan State University (online; hopefully, one last time!)

June 6–July 1, 2022

Schedule

Team

• Pavel Snopok, Onur Gilanliogullari and Sarah Weatherly, Illinois Institute of Technology

• Diktys Stratakis and Elvin Harms, FNAL

• Xueying Lu, NIU and Argonne National Lab

• Kiersten Ruisard, Fanglei Lin and Vasiliy Morozov, Oak Ridge National Lab

• Brian Beaudoin and Amber Johnson, University of Maryland

• Nicole Neveu, SLAC

Lecture Material

This course relies heavily on the prior work by Michael Syphers and Linda Spentzouris. Kudos to them! We will be tweaking the material as we go along.

Purpose and Audience

This course aims to introduce the students to the physics and technology of particle beam accelerators. This course is suitable for last year undergraduate students or students from other fields considering accelerator physics as a possible career. This course also can provide a broader background to engineers and technicians working in the field of accelerator technology.

Prerequisites

Credit-seeking students: Courses in special relativity (at the level of French, “Special Relativity”, or Resnick, “Special Relativity”), classical mechanics (lower division level), and electrodynamics (at the level of “Introduction to Electrodynamics” by David J. Griffiths) at a junior undergraduate level or higher.

Audit-only students: Courses in College Physics and first year Calculus.

It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that he or she meets the course prerequisites or has equivalent experience.

Objectives

This introductory course tries to avoid heavy mathematical treatment and will focus on the fundamental principles of particle accelerators and beam dynamics. Fundamental physics and technologies of particle acceleration are explored, with emphasis on basic relationships, definitions, and applications found in the field of particle accelerators. On completion of this course, the students are expected to understand the basic workings of accelerators and their components. Furthermore, they will comprehend basic principles and definitions of beam dynamics and will be able to analyze experimental observations in terms of fundamental beam dynamics.

Instructional Method

This course will offer a series of lectures and laboratories (hardware and simulation) during morning sessions. The laboratory sessions will introduce students to computer simulations and magnet and rf cavity measurements. The lab course will emphasize the comparison of measurement data with computer simulation results. The students will be required to write lab reports and will be graded on them. Homework problems will be assigned twice weekly, and instructors will be available to help answer questions about the homework and lectures during the evening exercise sessions. There will be a final exam on the last day of the class.

Course Content

Introductory material will include discussions of classical dynamics and relativity, synchrotron radiation, the historical development of accelerators, and the uses of particle accelerators. Basic components such as bending and focusing magnets, electrostatic deflectors, and radio-frequency accelerating structures will be described. Comparisons between hadron and electron accelerators will be presented, and examples of modern accelerator facilities will be discussed as well as state-of-the-art accelerator R&D.

Reading Requirements

A hardbound copy of the textbook, An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators, Wiley Publishers (1993) by D.A. Edwards and M.J. Syphers (Edwards and Syphers, 1993), will be provided by the school during check-in. The textbook can also be found online. If the student’s institution has an agreement with Wiley Publishers, it may be possible to download a pdf of the textbook ahead of the school. The student may also want to read “An Introduction to Particle Accelerators,” Oxford University Press (2001) by E.J.N. Wilson (Wilson, 2001).

The flow of the course will not follow either text directly, but cross-references between daily material and sections of the above textbooks are provided in the Suggested Reading section of the website.

Grading Policy

Students will be evaluated based on performance: homework assignments (40% of final grade), laboratory reports (30% of final grade), and final exam (30% of final grade).

Homework Problems

The student will be expected to turn in all problems. Each assignment contains 4 to 5 problems to be solved. Homework is due at midnight on each due date.

References

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.

Wilson, Edmund. 2001. An Introduction to Particle Accelerators. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198508298.001.0001/acprof-9780198508298.