Course instructors:
Josh Coleman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nathaniel Pogue, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Will Waldron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guest: John Barnard (HIF Lecture)
The class will meet on M-F at 9:00 - 11:30 and 13:30 - 16:00, except no class on the last Friday afternoon. All morning & afternoon sessions will be used for lectures. Homework in the evenings. Final exam friday morning.
There will be one problem set per day handed out starting Monday. Problem sets are due at the beginning of class the day after they are handed out. The problem sets will be graded returned as within 1 day. You are encouraged to work with someone on the problem sets. The final grade will be 50% HW and 50% Friday final exam.
Course structure
Day 1 - Introduction (Josh Coleman),
Cathode & Injector Physics (Josh Coleman)
Emission mechanisms
Cathode physics
Diode physics
Diode models and transport
Day 2a - Accelerator transport (Nate Pogue)
Day 2b - Intense electron instabilities (Josh Coleman and Nate Pogue)
Day 3 - Pulsed Power engineering (Will Waldron)
Day 4a - Target Physics (Josh Coleman)
Day 4b - Heavy ion fusion (concepts & physics) (John Barnard)
Day 5 morning - Final exam