Particle accelerators

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Covers the properties of synchrotron radiation, including its emission by relativistic particles and its effect on the beam through radiation damping.

Synchrotrons and XFELs Overview

Gives an overview of synchrotrons, XFELs, and their differences in photon and electron energies.

Accelerator Technology and Instrumentation

Explores advanced concepts in particle accelerators, including magnets, novel techniques, instrumentation, optimization, diagnostics, safety measures, storage rings, and synchrotron light monitors.

Large Scale Facilities: Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser

Explores synchrotrons, free electron lasers, electron acceleration, radiation production, and ultrafast magnetization dynamics.

Free electron lasers

Explores free electron lasers, covering light sources, brilliance, X-ray sources, FEL modes, and electron beam requirements.

Collective Effects: Basics and Mitigation

Explores collective effects in accelerators, discussing instabilities, mitigation techniques, and impedance reduction.

Wigglers and Undulators: Techniques and Applications

Explores wigglers and undulators in synchrotrons and x-ray lasers, focusing on damping wigglers and their thermal management.

Relativistic Larmor Formula: Synchrotron Radiation

Explores the relativistic Larmor formula and synchrotron radiation in the context of accelerated charged particles and electromagnetic fields.

Beam Shaping: Advanced Concepts in Particle Accelerators

Explores advanced beam shaping techniques in particle accelerators, focusing on control and optimization.

Bending Magnets and Magnet Lattice: Part 2

Explores radiated power, energy storage, RF power supply, and RF bunching in synchrotrons, emphasizing the role of RF cavities.

Bending Magnets and Magnet Lattice

Explores the design and function of bending magnets, quadrupoles, and sextupoles in synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.

Bending Magnets and the Magnet Lattice

Explores bending magnets, magnetic field strengths, electric fields, angular frequency, synchrotron radiation, and beamlines.

Linear Beam Dynamics

Covers the Hamiltonian formalism, linear equations, Courant-Snyder parametrization, and chromatic effects in accelerator physics.

Present Challenges in Accelerator Physics

Covers the current challenges in accelerator physics, main issues, research on applications, modeling, and conferences.

Electric Fields and Particle Motion

Explores charged particle motion in electric fields and cyclotron operation.

Continuum Emissions: Thermal vs Non-thermal

Covers thermal and non-thermal continuum emissions in astrophysics, including free-free emission and synchrotron radiation.

Quantifying Synchrotron Radiation: Part 1

Explores spectral flux, bandwidth, emittance, and brightness of synchrotron radiation, tracing its evolution since Röntgen.

Beamlines: Primary Optics

Explores techniques for harmonic suppression in synchrotrons and x-ray lasers.

Relativistic Larmor Formula: Lagrangian for Electrodynamics

Covers the relativistic Larmor formula, synchrotron radiation, and Lagrangian for electrodynamics.

Astroparticle Physics: Neutron Stars and Cosmic Rays

Explores neutron stars, supernova explosions, and their role in cosmic ray production.