Course instructors:
Josh Coleman, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nathaniel Pogue, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Will Waldron, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Guests: Brent McHale (LLNL), Dale Welch (Voss Scientific), Remi Lehe and Arianna Formenti (LBNL)
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. No homework on Tuesday. 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 (Nate Pogue),
Pulsed power technologies & design (Will Waldron)
Solid state pulsed power (Brent McHale)
Day 2 - Accelerator, pulsed power and PIC tools (Josh Coleman, Nate Pogue, Dale Welch, Remi Lehe, and Arianna Formenti )
Day 3 - Injector design & cathode technologies (Josh Coleman)
Day 4a - Induction cell and magnet design (Nate Pogue)
Day 4b - Accelerator diagnostics (Josh Coleman)
Day 4c - Target diagnostics
Day 5 morning - Final exam