Michaelmas Term 2023

11 Oct 2023, 10:00 → 30 Nov 2023, 18:15 Europe/London

John Adams Institute - Accelerator Courses Accelerator Physics

Wednesday 11 October

Week 1

1 Lecture 1 - Types of Accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis

Lecture 1a - Introduction.mp4

Lecture 1b Introduction.mp4

Tsesmelis Lecture 1 Introduction.pdf

Tsesmelis Lecture 1 Introduction.pptx

2 Lecture 2 - Applications of Accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis

Lecture 2 Applications.mp4

Tsesmelis Lecture 2 AcceleratorApplications.pdf

Tsesmelis Lecture 2 AcceleratorApplications.pptx

3 Lecture 3 - Live Feed - LHC Control Centre

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis

Tsesmelis Lecture 3 CERN CCC.pdf

Tsesmelis Lecture 3 CERN CCC.pptx

Wednesday 18 October

Week 2

4 Tutorial 1 - Introduction to Accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

Exercises Introduction 18Oct2023.pdf

Thursday 19 October

Week 2

5 Lecture 4 - Transverse Optics I

Speaker: Dr Hector Garcia Morales (University of Oxford)

JAI2023__Transverse_Dynamics_Lectures.pdf

6 Lecture 5 - Transverse Optics II

Speaker: Dr Hector Garcia Morales (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 October

Week 3

7 Lecture 6 - Basic Plasma Physics Concepts for Plasma Accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Stuart Mangles

Plasma_concepts.pdf

8 Lecture 7 - Plasma-based Electron Acceleration

Speaker: Prof. Stuart Mangles

Wakefield_intro.pdf

Wednesday 1 November

Week 4

9 Lecture 8 - Longitudinal Dynamics

Speaker: Dr Robert Williamson

Longitudinal_Dynamics_Lecture_Handout.pdf

10 Lecture 9 - Momentum Effects

Speaker: Dr Robert Williamson

Momentum_Effects_Handout.pdf

11 Tutorial 2 - Transverse Optics

Speaker: Dr Hector Garcia Morales (University of Oxford)

Tutorial.pdf

Thursday 2 November

Week 4

12 Lecture 10 - Lattice Design

Speaker: Dr Hector Garcia Morales (University of Oxford)

1_FODO.madx

2_FODO_add_bends.madx

3_FODO_match.madx

4_FODO_tracking.madx

JAI2023__Lattice_Design_Lectures.pdf

Wednesday 8 November

Week 5

13 Lecture 11 - Hamiltonian Dynamics I

Speaker: Dr David Kelliher (STFC)

Hamiltonian_lecture1.pdf

14 Lecture 12 - Hamiltonian Dynamics II

Speaker: Dr David Kelliher (STFC)

Hamiltonian_lecture2_latex.pdf

15 Tutorial 3 - Longitudinal Dynamics

Speaker: Dr Robert Williamson

Longitudinal_Problem_Set_2023.pdf

Thursday 9 November

Week 5

16 Lecture 13 - Properties of Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Ian Martin

Lecture-I_SyncRad.pdf

17 Lecture 14 - Undulators & Wigglers

Speaker: Dr Ian Martin

Lecture-2_IDs.pdf

Wednesday 15 November

Week 6

18 Lecture 15 - Plasma-based Ion Acceleration

Speaker: Prof. Zulfikar Najmudin

19 Lecture 16 - Cavities I

Speaker: Ciprian Plostinar (ESS)

20 Lecture 17 - Cavities II

Speaker: Ciprian Plostinar (ESS)

Thursday 16 November

Week 6

21 Lecture 18 - Cavities III

Speaker: Ciprian Plostinar (ESS)

22 Lecture 19 - RF Cavity Design

Speaker: Dr Ciprian Plostinar (ESS)

Wednesday 22 November

Week 7

23 Lecture 20 - Beams and Imperfections

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

Lecture 22 BeamInstrumentation.pdf

Lecture 22 BeamInstrumentation.pptx

24 Lecture 21 - Parameters for LhARA Project Design

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

LhARA-JAIDesignProject.pdf

LhARA-JAIDesignProject.pptx

Tsesmelis Lecture21 LhARA.pdf

Tsesmelis Lecture21 LhARA.pptx

25 Lecture 22 - Beam Diagnostics & Instr.

Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Tsesmelis (CERN)

Lecture 22 BeamInstrumentation.pdf

Lecture 22 BeamInstrumentation.pptx

Thursday 23 November

Week 7

26 Lecture 23 - Radiation Damping

Speaker: Dr Ian Martin

Lecture_3_RadDamp.pdf

27 Lecture 24 - Radiation Excitation

Speaker: Dr Ian Martin

Lecture_4_RadExcite.pdf

28 Tutorial 4 - Cavities

Speaker: Ciprian Plostinar (ESS)

Wednesday 29 November

Week 8

29 Tutorial 5 - Hamiltonian Dynamics

Speaker: Dr David Kelliher (STFC)

Problems_2023.pdf

Thursday 30 November

Week 8

30 Tutorial 6 - Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Ian Martin

SynchRadQuestions_2023.pdf