Uni Zürich and ETHZ joint lecture Experimental Methods and Instruments of Particle Physics

Particle Accelerators

PDFs of the slides:

• 1. Introduction (1-22, 1.3 MB)
• 2. Accelerator basics and types (23-62, 4.4 MB)
• 3. Single particle dynamics (63-86, 12.7 MB)
• 4. Multi-particle dynamics (87-112, 1.6 MB)
• 5. Longitudinal beam dynamics (113-121, 0.4 MB)
• 6. Synchrotron radiation (122-141, 2.0 MB)
• 7. Luminosity (142-154,1.2 MB)
• 8. Muons and neutrinos / Outlook (155-183, 3.3MB)

The complete lecture: 1 slide per page (15.1 MB) or 4 slides per page (14.5 MB).

Summary (what was important?)

Exercises and Solutions.

Additional material

• Animation: travelling wave
• The simplified Hamiltonian for transverse beam dynamics
• OPA optics code
• SLS operation schedule

Want learn more?

• ETH lecture by A. Adelmann: Particle Accelerator Physics and Modeling I+II
• CERN accelerator school

Andreas Streun, SLS/PSI, Oct. 2017