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Lectures on Particle Accelerators - a message from Geoff Krafft
For the past two weeks I have been presenting lectures on Particle Accelerator Physics at Old Dominion University. Because of the desire of a large group of CASA members who are interested in attending, and a request to present the material to operations staff, I will be presenting the lectures in parallel at Jefferson Lab, but delayed two weeks.
The lectures are senior/graduate level and assume knowledge of relativistic equations of motion, electromagnetic theory up to and including Maxwell Equations in differential form, Stokes and Divergence Theorems, and rudimentary Linear Algebra (mainly matrix multiplication and 2 by 2 matrix determinants)
Lectures will begin on Wednesday, September 12, at 8:30-10:00, and will be presented Wednesday and Friday Mornings at this time in MCC. All interested JLAB Staff are invited to attend. All the usual "standard" accelerator physics ideas: cyclotron and cyclotron frequency, transverse or "betatron" motion, phase stability and synchrotrons, "weak" and "strong" focusing in particle accelerators, linear betatron motion and alpha and beta function descriptions thereof, dispersion, M_{56}, synchrotron oscillations, synchrotron radiation, and collective effects in particle beams will presented.
The course will follow pretty closely the notes I took at a similar course at Berkeley when much younger. I've gussied them up with more modern notation and ideas. A link to the course home page is attached.
http://casa.jlab.org/publications/FallODUlecture_2007.shtml
Please forward to anyone within the laboratory community who might be interested. Thanks!
Geoff Krafft