This presentation provides an overview of the fundamental principles of accelerator physics and technology, focusing on the CERN Accelerator Complex. Key topics include the necessity and function of accelerators and colliders, the structure and operation of the CERN accelerator chain, and the critical components of an accelerator. The lecture also explores the maintenance and improvement of...
This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of basic mathematics and units essential for understanding and working in accelerator science. The material begins with fundamental concepts such as vectors and matrices, crucial for describing physical systems and solving linear equations that frequently arise in the field. It also explains differential equations. The presentation also...
The lecture is a refresher at the level of high school and the first year of engineering school. It covers electrostatics (Coulomb force, electric field, potential energy and Gauss Law), magnetostatics (magnetic forces, Amperes law, magnetic moments, magnets), electric and magnetic induction (Faraday Law, Ampere-Maxwell Law), Maxwell equations in integral and differential forms and...
This lecture gives an introduction to the dynamics of the transverse motion of the particles in an accelerator or storage ring. Following the general tenor of the school, special focus is put on a basic level of the explanations and so
tedious mathematical deductions are avoided and replaced by logical arguments and equivalent descriptions in other fields of physics.
As a consequence the...
The lecture delivers a basic overview of the terms and principles of particle production and extraction, including some plasma physics and a general ion source model. This information is further elaborated with the help of some examples of electron sources and ion sources.
This lecture gives an introduction to the dynamics of the transverse motion of the particles in an accelerator or storage ring. Following the general tenor of the school, special focus is put on a basic level of the explanations and so
tedious mathematical deductions are avoided and replaced by logical arguments and equivalent descriptions in other fields of physics.
As a consequence the...
In this lecture we review the fundamental principles of a linear accelerator, we look at different types of RF structures both in the TE and TM mode and we discuss their use at different velocities and/or charge over mass. We also discuss basic principles of dynamics (transverse and longitudinal phase advance) during acceleration. The lecture builds on examples taken by the present and past...
This lecture gives an introduction to the dynamics of the transverse motion of the particles in an accelerator or storage ring. Following the general tenor of the school, special focus is put on a basic level of the explanations and so
tedious mathematical deductions are avoided and replaced by logical arguments and equivalent descriptions in other fields of physics.
As a consequence the...
This lecture gives an introduction to Beam instrumentation in particle accelerators.
It describes the physical processes and the technologies involved in the monitoring of beam
intensity, beam position, transverse and longitudinal beam profiles as well as beam losses.
The lecture also presents a series of examples of instruments currently used at CERN.
The storage and acceleration of particles in a synchrotron are typically limited to a range of energy, or magnetic rigidity, of a factor 15. Therefore, to accelerate protons from the 200 MeV Linac 4 to the 7 TeV it comes that a chain of at least 4 such synchrotrons is needed.
The injection and extraction of beams between accelerators are essential to achieve a wide range of energies and a...
We review the basic principles that lead to our current understanding of the fundamental elements of matter and their interactions, as codified in the so-called Standard Model of particle physics. Starting from the two pillars, Quantum Mechanics and the Special Theory of Relativity, and the resulting picture of interactions as the result of particle exchange, we will address the question of...
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) study is developing designs for a new research infrastructure to host the next generation of higher performance particle colliders to extend the research currently being conducted at the LHC, once the High-Luminosity phase (HL-LHC) reaches its conclusion in around 2040. The goal of the FCC is to push the energy and intensity frontiers of particle colliders,...
