Reference Material

Books

The following books (which are available in the Department Library / Main University (JN) Library) will be followed as main references:

1. An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators, D.A. Edwards and M.J. Syphers, Wiley-VCH (2004).
2. An Introduction to Particle Accelerators, E.J.N. Wilson, Oxford University Press (2006).
3. The Physics of Particle Accelerators, Klaus Wille, Oxford University Press (2005).

In addition, the following books will be useful for some topics:

1. RF Linear Accelerators, T.P. Wangler, Wiley-VCH (2008).
2. Particle Accelerator Physics (3rd ed.), Helmut Wiedemann, Springer (2007).
3. Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering (2nd ed.), A. W. Chao et al., World Scientific (2013).
4. Introduction to the Physics of Highly Charged Ions, H.F. Beyer and V.P. Shevelko, IoP Publishing (2003).
5. Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, S. Humphries Jr., Dover Publications (2012).

Other documents

The following 'CERN yellow reports' (proceedings and lecture notes of the CERN Accelerator School, CAS) may be useful for some topics. For a complete list of Yellow reports, which are openly accessible, visit https://cds.cern.ch/collection/CERN%20Yellow%20Reports?ln=en.

• 1994 (5th General Accelerator Physics Course) Vol. 1
  • (1. Historical review, 2. Basic optics, 5. Transverse dynamics, 9. Beam transfer, 11. Linear structures, 18. Synchrotron radiation)
• 1994 (5th General Accelerator Physics Course) Vol. 2
  • (3. Beam diagnostics, 4. Beam cooling, 7. Conventional RF system design, 8. Vacuum system design, 15. Accelerator applications, 16. Medical accelerators, 19. RF linacs, 23. Nuclear waste management)
• 1996 (Cyclotrons, Linacs and Their Applications)
  • (1. RF linacs, 2. Electron linacs, 3. Ion linacs, 12. Medical linacs, 14. Applications of ion linacs, 23. Commercial accelerators)
• 2005 (Basic Course on General Accelerator Physics)
  • (5. Linear structures, 6. Magnet design, 7. Beam diagnostics, 9. Beam cooling, 10. Muon colliders, 11. Space charge)
• 2009 (Course on Beam Diagnostics)
  • (1. Diagnostic needs of different machines, 6. Actual situations in diagnostics, 18. Machine protection)
• 2014 (Advanced Accelerator Physics Course)
  • (2. Beam instrumentation and diagnostics, 7. Machine protection, 13. RF cavity design, 15. High field accelerator magnets, 16. Medical applications)

The following journal articles have been reviewed by students in the past as seminar topics:

1. Nanostructuring CaF2 surfaces with slow highly charged ions
2. Production of a nm sized slow HCI beam with a guiding effect
3. Focusing of charged particle beams with various glass-made optics
4. Application of keV and MeV ion microbeams through tapered glass capillaries
5. Guiding of slow highly charged ions through nanocapillaries – dynamic aspect –
6. Resistive switching induced on a glass plate by ion beam irradiation
7. Electromagnetic Transition from the 4⁺ to 2⁺ Resonance in ⁸Be Measured via the Radiative Capture in ⁴He+⁴He
8. Direct Observation of the 4⁺-to-2⁺ Gamma Transition in ⁸Be
9. Visible-Laser Acceleration of Relativistic Electrons in a Semi-Infinite Vacuum
10. Observation of Atomic Antihydrogen
11. Effect of Collective Response on Electron Capture and Excitation in Collisions of Highly Charged Ions with Fullerenes
12. Three-Dimensional Resonant Coherent Excitation of Nonchanneling Ions in a Crystal
13. Dressed Atoms in Flight through a Periodic Crystal Field: X-VUV Double Resonance
14. Quantum Electrodynamics in Strong Electric Fields: The Ground-State Lamb Shift in Hydrogenlike Uranium
15. Spectral Shape of the Two-Photon Decay of the 2 ¹S₀ State in He-Like Tin
16. Observation of 2p3d(¹P^o)→1s3d(¹D^e) Radiative Transition in He-like Si, S, and Cl Ions
17. Second-order interference in collisions of 4-MeV/u F⁹⁺ ions with H₂
18. Precision measurement of the speed of propagation of neutrinos using the MINOS detectors
19. Electron-ion collision spectroscopy: Lithium-like xenon ions
20. Breit interaction in dielectronic recombination of hydrogenlike uranium
21. Electron-electron interaction studied in strong central fields by resonant transfer and excitation with H-like U ions
22. Guiding of slow Ne⁷⁺ ions through nanocapillaries in insulating polyethylene terephthalate: Incident current dependence
23. The high-frequency spectra of the elements
24. The high-frequency spectra of the elements. Part II
25. Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
26. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
27. Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the ICARUS detector at the CNGS beam
28. Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
29. Precision measurement of the neutrino velocity with the ICARUS detector in the CNGS beam
30. ORLaND — a neutrino facility at the Spallation Neutron Source