PHY564 fall 2015
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Course Overview
This graduate level course focuses on the fundamental physics and explored in depth advanced concepts of modern particle accelerators and theoretical concept related to them.
Course Content
- Principle of least actions, relativistic mechanics and E&D, 4D notations
- N-dimensional phase space, Canonical transformations, simplecticity and invariants of motion
- Relativistic beams, Reference orbit and Accelerator Hamiltonian
- Parameterization of linear motion in accelerators, Transport matrices, matrix functions, Sylvester's formula, stability of the motion
- Invariants of motion, Canonical transforms to the action and phase variables, emittance of the beam, perturbation methods. Poincare diagrams
- Standard problems in accelerators: closed orbit, excitation of oscillations, radiation damping and quantum excitation, natural emittance
- Non-linear effects, Lie algebras and symplectic maps
- Vlasov and Fokker-Plank equations, collective instabilities & Landau Damping
- Spin motion in accelerators
- Types and Components of Accelerators
Learning Goals
Students who have completed this course should:
- Have a full understanding of transverse and longitudinal particles dynamics in accelerators
- Being capable of solving problems arising in modern accelerator theory
- Understand modern methods in accelerator physics
- Being capable to fully understand modern accelerator literature
Main Texts and suggested materials
- Lecture notes presented after each class should be used as the main text. Presently there is no textbook, which covers the material of this course.
- H. Wiedemann, "Particle Accelerator Physics" Springer, 2007
- S. Y. Lee, "Accelerator Physics”, World Scientific, 2011
- L.D. Landau, Classical theory of fields
Course Description
- Relativistic mechanics and E&D. Linear algebra.
- This will be a brief but complete rehash of relativistic mechanics, E&M and linear algebra material required for this course.
- N-dimensional phase space, Canonical transformations, simplecticity, invariants
- Canonical transformations and related to it simplecticity of the phase space are important part of beam dynamics in accelerators. We will consider connections between them as well as derive all Poincare invariants (including Liouville theorem). We will use a case of a coupled N-dimensional linear oscillator system for transforming to the action and phase variables. We finish with adiabatic invariants.
- Relativistic beams, Reference orbit and Accelerator Hamiltonian
- We will use least action principle to derive the most general form of accelerator Hamiltonian using curvilinear coordinate system related to the beam trajectory (orbit).
- Linear beam dynamics
- This part of the course will be dedicated to detailed description of linear dynamics of particles in accelerators. You will learn about particles motion in oscillator potential with time- dependent rigidity. You will learn how to calculate matrices of arbitrary element in accelerators. We will use eigen vectors and eigen number to parameterize the particles motion and describe its stability in circular accelerators. Here you find a number of analogies with planetary motion, including oscillation of Earth’s moon. You will learn some “standards” of the accelerator physics – betatron tunes and beta-function and their importance in circular accelerators.
- Longitudinal beam dynamics
- Here you will learn about one important approximation widely used in accelerator physics – “slow” longitudinal oscillations, which are have a lot of similarity with pendulum motion. If you were ever wondering why Saturn rings do not collapse into one large ball of rock under gravitational attraction – this where you will learn of the effect so-called negative mass in longitudinal motion of particles when attraction of the particles cause their separation.
- Invariants of motion, Canonical transforms to the action and phase variables, emittance of the beam, perturbation methods, perturbative non-linear effects
- In this part of the course we will remove “regular and boring” oscillatory part of the particle’s motion and focus on how to include weak linear and nonlinear perturbations to the particles motion. We will solve a number of standard accelerator problems: perturbed orbit, effects of focusing errors, “weak effects” such as synchrotron radiation, resonant Hamiltonian, etc. We will re-introduce Poincare diagrams for illustration of the resonances. You will learn how non- linear resonances may affect stability of the particles and about their location on the tune diagram. You will learn about chromatic (energy dependent) effects, use of non-linear elements to compensate them, and about problems created by introducing them.
- Non-linear effects, Lie algebras and symplectic maps
- This part of the course will open you the door into and complex nonlinear beam dynamics. We will introduce you to non-perturbative nonlinear dynamics and fascinating world of non-linear maps, Lie algebras and Lie operators. These are the main tools in the modern non-linear beam dynamics. You will learn about dynamic aperture of accelerators as well as how our modern tools are similar to those used in celestial mechanics.
- Vlasov and Fokker-Plank equations
- This part of the course is dedicated to the developing of tools necessary for studies of collective effects in accelerators. We will introduce distribution function of the particles and its evolution equations: one following conservation of Poincare invariants and the other including stochastic processes.
- Radiation effects
- You will learn how to use the tools we had developed in previous lectures (both the perturbation methods and Fokker-Plank equation) to evaluate effect of synchrotron radiation on the particle’s motion in accelerator. You will see how the effect of radiation damping and quantum excitation lead to formation of equilibrium Gaussian distribution of the particles.
- Collective phenomena
- Intense beam of charged particles excite E&M fields when propagate through accelerator structures. These fields, in return, act on the particles and can cause variety of instabilities. Some of these instabilities – such as a free-electron lasers (FEL) – can be very useful as powerful coherent X-rays sources. Others (and they are majority) do impose limits on the beam intensities or limit available range of the beam parameters. You will learn techniques involved in studies of collective effects and will use them for some of instabilities, including FEL. The second part of the collective effect will focus on how we can cool hadron beams, which do not have natural cooling.
- Spin dynamics
- Many particles used in accelerators have spin. Beams of such particles with preferred orientation of their spins called polarized. Large number of high energy physics experiments using colliders strongly benefit from colliding polarized beams. You will learn the main aspects of the spin dynamics in the accelerators and about various ways to keep beam polarized. One more “tunes” to worry about - spin tune.
- Accelerator application
- We will finish the course with a brief discussion of accelerator application, among which are accelerators for nuclear and particle physics, X-ray light sources, accelerators for medical uses, etc. You will also learn about future accelerators at the energy and intensity frontiers as well as about new methods of particle acceleration.
Grades
There will be a substantial number of problems. Most of them are aiming for better understanding of material covered during classes. The final grade will be based on:
- Homework assignments - 40% of the grade
- Presentation of a research topic - 40% of the grade
- Class Participation - 20% of the grade
