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Why RF acceleration?
How do resonant accelerator cavities work?
Cavity modes
Different types of accelerating structures
Figures of merit to characterize accelerating cavities
Cavity coupling and RF sources
Gradient limitation of RF cavities and Advanced Accelerator Research
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Ideal synchronous particle and ideal timing
Time of flight and slip factor
Bunching
Adiabatic damping and normalized emittance
Lecture notes by Linda Spentzouris:
Accelerating structures: accelerating structures, resonant modes, Feynman derivation of electric field in resonant cylindrical cavities
Longitudinal dynamics: longitudinal beam structure, difference and differential equations, energy error to travel time error, phase space trajectories, synchrotron frequency