Graduate course in accelerator physics

This is a course in the fundamentals of accelerator physics, as part of the Cockcroft Institute graduate course in all aspects of accelerator physics and their applications. This course will begin on 17th October 2005 and will run for 9 lectures.

My lectures will be supported by tutorials given by members of the Cockcroft Institute, and will be followed up by a wide range of more specialized courses offered by the universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster.

Note that I can be found in room 7-16 at the University of Manchester, at the Cockcroft Institute or at r.b.appleby@dl.ac.uk

  Notes and handouts:

A complete lecture list can be found here.

Lecture 1: The course introduction, Lecture notes, Lecture summary

Lecture 2: Lecture notes, Handout, Lecture summary

Lecture 3: Lecture notes, Handout, Lecture summary

Lecture 4: Lecture notes, Handout, Lecture summary

Lecture 5: Lecture notes

Lecture 6: Lecture notes

Lecture 7: Lecture notes

Lecture 8: Lecture notes, Handout

Lecture 9: Lecture notes

     

Syllabus: (in .ps format)

1 Introduction and overview

     * Overview and goals of course

     * The principle of weak and strong focusing

     * Beam forces, space-charge and magnets

2 A touch of relativity

     * The Lorentz transformation and their consequences

     * Transformation of energy/momentum and 4-vectors

     * Relativistic dynamics

 3 Transverse beam dynamics

     * Particle motion and derivation of transverse Hills equations

     * Matrix formulation of transverse beam dynamics

     * Stability of motion

     * Emittance and phase space

     * Off-momentum particle motion

     * Closed orbit distortion

     * Chromaticity

 4 Longitudinal beam dynamics

     * The pill-box cavity

     * The principle of phase stability

6 History of particle accelerators and concluding summary

     * The historical development of accelerators

     * Review of modern machines