Accelerator Physics, USPAS Summer 2021

This course is graduate-level accelerator physics, co-taught by Prof. Steve Lund, Prof Yue Hao, Prof Yichao Jing, and Dr. Jonathan Wong.

Course website

The lecture notes by Yue Hao:

Lecture Notes

1. Magnets
2. Linear Transverse Motion
3. Perturbed Linear Transverse Motion
4. Off Momentum Orbit and Chromatic Effect
5. Longitudinal Dynamics
6. Synchrotron Radiation
7. Electron Storage Ring
8. Undulator Radiation

Applications

• Synchrotron Light Sources
• Free Electron Laser
• Hadron Cooling
• New Accelerator Concepts

Special Topics

• Symplecticity

Examples

• FODO cells
• DBA

References:

1. “Accelerator Physics”, By S.Y. Lee, World Scientific
2. “Lecture notes on Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics”, by Gennady Stupakov
3. “Basic Theory of Manget”, by Animesh Jain
4. “A First- and Second-Order Matrix Theory for the Design of Beam Transport Systems and Charged Particle Spectrometers”, SLAC-75, by Karl Brown

The whole package of the lectures and the Jupyter notebook can be retrieved by:

git clone https://github.com/YueHao/AP_course_materials.git