JUAS 2026 (Course 1): The Science of Particle Accelerators

12 Jan 2026, 13:10 → 13 Feb 2026, 13:15 Europe/Paris

ESI Archamps

Elias Metral (CERN)

NOTE: 1 slot of 1 hour = 50 minutes lecture + 10 minutes break

JUAS 2026 - Course 1.pdf

JUAS 2026 - LIST A LA CARTE.pdf

Monday 12 January

13:10 → 14:00 OFFICIAL OPENING ( PART 1)

13:10 - 13:20 - Presentation by ESI Director, Florence MOUTHON
13:20 - 13:50 - Presentation by JUAS Director, Elias METRAL
13:50 - 14:00 - Presentation by Project Manager, Darina BAIZHANOVA

Speakers: Darina Baizhanova (European Scientific Institute (FR)), Elias Metral (CERN), Florence Mouthon (European Scientific Institute (FR))

IntroTalk-Course1and2_JUAS2026_12-01-26_EM.pdf

JUAS 2026 - Practicial Information - Darina BAIZHANOVA.pdf

JUAS book

14:00 → 15:50 Hotel check-in together with ESI team

14:00 - 14:20 - Information about ECLA Residence (Contract, Deposit - cash only)
14:20 - 15:45 - Check-in the residence

16:00 → 18:00 Special relativity, electromagnetism, classical and quantum mechanics: what to remember for particle accelerators

Speaker: Elias Metral (CERN)

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WhatToRememberForParticleAccelerators_JUAS2026_12-01-26_EM.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 Particle Accelerators in the 21st century

Seminar

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

vretenar_juas_01_26.pdf

vretenar_juas_01_26.pptx

19:00 → 20:30 OFFICIAL OPENING (PART 2): Ice-breaking & International Apero

Tuesday 13 January

08:45 → 12:00 Transverse Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

J_26_Questions_Optics_Tutorial.pdf

J_26_Solutions_Optics_Tutorial_1.pdf

Juas26_1p.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

5_sync_motion_correction_first_part.pdf

HTML

• 1_introduction.html
• 2_fundamentals.html
• 3_synchrotron.html
• 4_long_eom_blank.html
• 4_long_eom.html
• 5_sync_motion_blank.html
• 5_sync_motion.html
• 6_applications.html
• img.zip
• menu.css

PDF

• 1_introduction.pdf
• 2_fundamentals.pdf
• 3_synchrotron.pdf
• 4_long_eom_blank.pdf
• 4_long_eom.pdf
• 5_sync_motion_blank.pdf
• 5_sync_motion.pdf
• 6_applications.pdf

Tracker

• simple_tracker.svg
• tracker.ipynb
• tracker.py

16:30 → 17:30 Software installation problems

Speaker: Nuria Fuster Martinez

RunMe.ipynb

Wednesday 14 January

08:45 → 12:00 Transverse Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

J_26_Solutions_Optics_Tutorial_2a.pdf

Juas26_2p.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

Resources

16:30 → 17:30 Introduction to CERN & its Accelerator Complex

Seminar

Speaker: Malika Meddahi (CERN)

JUAS January 2026 - Final.pdf

JUAS January 2026 - Final.pptx

Thursday 15 January

08:45 → 12:00 Transverse Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

Juas26_3p.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

Resources

16:30 → 17:30 Electron-positron circular colliders

Seminar

Speaker: Jacqueline Keintzel (CERN)

20250117_Keintzel_JUAS_eecolliders.pdf

18:00 → 19:00 For those who live at the residence: ECLA Residence - tour

Friday 16 January

08:45 → 12:00 Transverse Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

JUAS26_4p.pdf

JUAS26_5p.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

Resources

16:30 → 16:45 EVALUATION #1

EVALUATION #1

Monday 19 January

08:45 → 09:30 Transverse Beam Dynamics

Speaker: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

09:30 → 12:00 TBD exam preparation/ Intro Xsuite (for TBD)

9.45-10.45 -> TBD exam preparation group 1/ Intro Xsuite group 2
10.45-12 -> TBD exam preparation group 2/ Intro Xsuite group 1

Speakers: David Amorim (EPFL), Davide Gamba (CERN), Nuria Fuster Martinez, Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 17:00 TBD exam preparation/Xsuite TBD workshop (for TBD)

13.15-14.15 -> Xsuite TBD workshop group 1 / TBD exam preparation group 2
14.15-15.15 -> Xsuite TBD workshop group 1 / TBD exam preparation group 2
15.15-16.15 -> Xsuite TBD workshop group 2 / TBD exam preparation group 1
16.15-17.00 -> Xsuite TBD workshop group 2 / TBD exam preparation group 1

Speakers: David Amorim (EPFL), Davide Gamba (CERN), Nuria Fuster Martinez, Pablo Martinez Reviriego, Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

Tuesday 20 January

09:45 → 12:00 Longitudinal Beam Dynamics (exam preparation)

Speaker: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

Resources

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 15:15 Xsuite longitudinal workshop (for LBD) & Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

GROUP1: Xsuite longitudinal workshop
B. Salvant
GROUP2: Longitudinal Beam Dynamics
A. Lasheen

Speaker: Benoit Salvant (CERN)

15:15 → 17:15 Xsuite longitudinal workshop (for LBD) & Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

GROUP 2: Xsuite longitudinal workshop
B. Salvant
GROUP 1: Longitudinal Beam Dynamics
A. Lasheen

Speaker: Benoit Salvant (CERN)

17:15 → 17:30 EVALUATION #2

Wednesday 21 January

08:45 → 12:00 Linacs

Speaker: David Alesini

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Transverse Linear Imperfections

Speakers: Davide Gamba (CERN), Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)

16:30 → 17:30 Low-emittance lattices for large colliders

Speaker: Dr Pantaleo Raimondi (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Thursday 22 January

08:45 → 12:00 Linacs

Speaker: David Alesini

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Transverse Linear Imperfections

Speakers: Davide Gamba (CERN), Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)

16:30 → 17:30 IBS and Touschek

Speaker: Fanouria Antoniou (CERN)

Friday 23 January

08:45 → 12:00 Linacs

Speaker: David Alesini

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Transverse Linear Imperfections

Speakers: Davide Gamba (CERN), Tirsi Prebibaj (CERN)

16:30 → 16:45 EVALUATION FORM #2.2 and Organisation of the CERN Visit

Please fill in the evaluation form

Monday 26 January

09:00 → 11:00 EXAM: Written EXAM 1/4: Transverse Beam Dynamics

Convener: Bernhard Holzer (CERN)

11:00 → 14:15 BREAK

14:15 → 16:15 EXAM: Written exam 2/4: Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Convener: Alexandre Lasheen (CERN)

Tuesday 27 January

08:45 → 12:00 Cyclotrons

Speaker: Alexander Gerbershagen (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen (NL))

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 14:00 Bus transfer

14:00 → 14:30 VISIT (CERN): Introductory presentation on ALICE

ALICE has a public website: https://alice.cern/

Speaker: John Jowett (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

14:30 → 16:15 VISIT (CERN): ALICE exhibition & Experiment (at the CERN LHC)

Visits in parallel groups to
- ALICE Exhibition
- The experiment in underground cavern

Speaker: John Jowett (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))

16:15 → 16:30 Bus transfer to CERN Prevessin Site

16:30 → 18:00 VISIT: CERNControlCenter & Neutrino Platform

Speakers: David Amorim (EPFL), Panos Zisopoulos (CERN)

18:00 → 18:15 Bus transfer to CERN Meyrin Site

18:15 → 19:30 Afterwork "JUAS Alumni"

Wednesday 28 January

08:45 → 12:00 Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 14:15 Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:15 → 16:30 Transverse nonlinear effects

Speaker: Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

16:30 → 17:30 Fixed-target beamlines

Seminar

Speaker: Alexander Gerbershagen (PARTREC, UMCG, University of Groningen (NL))

Thursday 29 January

08:45 → 12:00 Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 14:15 Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:15 → 16:30 Transverse nonlinear effects

Speaker: Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

Friday 30 January

08:45 → 10:45 Synchrotron Radiation

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:45 → 12:00 Synchrotron Radiation

(Exam preparation)

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 14:15 Synchrotron Radiation

(Exam preparation)

Speaker: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:15 → 16:30 Transverse nonlinear effects

Speaker: Sofia Kostoglou (CERN)

16:30 → 16:45 EVALUATION FORM #3

Monday 2 February

09:00 → 11:00 EXAM: Written EXAM 3/4: Synchrotron Radiation

Convener: Dr Rasmus Ischebeck (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Tuesday 3 February

08:45 → 12:00 Collective effects

(mainly space charge & instabilities)

Speakers: Enrica Chiadroni, Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Accelerator design

Speaker: Bastian Haerer

16:30 → 17:30 Accelerator design

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 February

08:45 → 12:00 Collective effects

(mainly space charge & instabilities)

Speakers: Enrica Chiadroni, Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 17:30 Accelerator design

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 February

08:45 → 09:45 Collective effects

(mainly space charge & instabilities)

Speakers: Enrica Chiadroni, Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

09:45 → 12:00 Accelerator design

Workshop (Restaurant 1)

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 17:30 Accelerator design

Workshop (Restaurant 1)

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 February

08:45 → 12:00 Oral EXAM: Accelerator design (by group)

Those who will NOT take the exams MUST be involved in the preparation of the oral presentation, you MUST take part of oral presentation but you will be NOT MARKED.

Each group will have their own slot of 20 minutes for oral presentation. Only the group presenting will be in the examination room. The rest of the time can be used for private studies.

Speakers: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford), Bastian Haerer

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 15:15 Oral EXAM: Accelerator design (by group)

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

15:15 → 16:15 Accelerator design: Summary discussion

Speaker: Adrian Oeftiger (University of Oxford)

16:15 → 17:15 Electron microscopy and diffraction

Speaker: Simona Borelli

17:15 → 17:30 EVALUATION FORM #4

Monday 9 February

08:45 → 12:00 Collective effects

(mainly space charge & instabilities)

Speakers: Enrica Chiadroni, Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 16:30 Injection / Extraction

Speaker: Nicola Carmignani (ESRF)

16:30 → 17:30 Novel High Gradient Particle Accelerators

Seminar

Speakers: Ralph Wolfgang Assmann (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Ralph Wolfgang Assmann (GSI)

Tuesday 10 February

08:45 → 10:45 Collective effects

(mainly space charge & instabilities)

Speakers: Enrica Chiadroni, Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

10:45 → 12:00 CST-Xsuite case study & Collective effects

GROUP1: CST-Xsuite case study
D. Amorim and S. Joly
GROUP2: Collective effects
M. Migliorati

Speakers: David Amorim (EPFL), Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)), Sebastien Joly (CERN)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH BREAK

13:15 → 14:15 CST-Xsuite case study & Collective effects

GROUP1: CST-Xsuite case study
D. Amorim and S. Joly
GROUP2: Collective effects
M. Migliorati

Speakers: David Amorim (EPFL), Mauro Migliorati (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT)), Sebastien Joly (CERN)

14:15 → 17:30 Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Speaker: Massimo Ferrario

17:30 → 17:40 EVALUATION FORM #5.1

Wednesday 11 February

14:15 → 16:15 EXAM: Written EXAM 4/4: All other lectures

Thursday 12 February

07:30 → 16:45 Visit (ESRF)

LUNCH PROVIDED BY ESRF!

IMPORTANT: YOU MUST HAVE YOUR ID CARD/PASSPORT;

Bus departure at 07:30

10h00 10:30 Welcome coffee (ESRF entrance)
10h30-11h10: ESRF introduction (Auditorium, JLR)
11h10-12h00: The ESRF facility…from yesterday to EBS (Auditorium, JLR)
12h00-12h30: ESRF operation as of today (Auditorium, JLR)
12h45-13h30: Lunch at the canteen
13h30 13h50 Coffee break (Control room mezzanine)
13h50-15:20 ESRF Visit (Group 1 : Jean-Luc, Group 2 : Nicola )
13h50-14h20: Group 1: Control room (JLR), Group 2: ID Lab (Gael)
14h20-14h50: Group 1: ID Lab (Gael), Group 2: Beamline (ID32)
14h50-15h20: Group 1: Beamline ID32 (Flora), Group 2: Control room (JLR or Nicola)
+ short view of SSA booster and technical gallery during the trip from IDLab to ID32
15h20-15h50: Beam dynamic group presentation and
feedback from a young scientist (Auditorium Nicola, Antonin)
15h45-16h00: Wrap up (Auditorium)
16h00: Departure

Friday 13 February

08:45 → 09:45 Free-Electron Lasers

Seminar

Speaker: Eduard Prat Costa

09:45 → 10:45 Beam cooling

Seminar

Speakers: Chris Rogers, Chris Rogers (RAL)

10:45 → 11:50 Closing session (Course 1)

Including evaluation form #8 (rest of the sessions and global evaluation of Course 1)

Speakers: Darina Baizhanova (European Scientific Institute (FR)), Elias Metral (CERN), Florence Mouthon (European Scientific Institute (FR))

11:50 → 12:00 EVALUATION FORM #5.2 and Global Eval Form

12:00 → 13:15 Goodbye Apero