Accelerator Physics

7 Apr 2021, 15:30 → 5 May 2021, 17:00 Europe/Rome

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Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro), Giovanna Montagnoli

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Wednesday 7 April

15:30 → 17:00 Particle accelerators for research and applications

Introduction, particle accelerators for research and applications, like medicine, cultural heritage and energy. Definition of acceleration and luminosity, various kind of accelerators, electrostatic and radiofrequency.

Convener: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

15:30 seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Wednesday 14 April

16:00 → 17:30 Focusing of a charge particle beam

Focusing of a charge particle beam, paraxial optics, magnetic quadrupoles and multipoles.
Periodic focusing systems and alternating gradient, stability of beam transport, role of resonances. Courant and Snyder invariant, emittance. Circular orbits, equations of motion in magnetic dipoles, dispersion and chromaticity.

Convener: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

16:00 seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Wednesday 21 April

15:30 → 17:00 Ion sources, electrostatic acceleration and injectors

Ion sources, electrostatic acceleration and injectors. The beam acceleration with an RF field. Phase stability principle. How to produce bunched beams.

Convener: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

15:30 seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Wednesday 28 April

15:30 → 17:00 Linear accelerators and RF cavities

Linear accelerators and RF cavities. The challenge of intense beams, the space
charge, the instabilities, the beam halo and small losses.

Convener: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

15:30 seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

Wednesday 5 May

15:30 → 17:00 How the same basic principles apply to different kind of accelerators

How the same basic principles apply to different kind of accelerators, linacs,
cyclotrons, synchrotrons, colliders.
Some example of relevant accelerators (realized and under construction).

Convener: Andrea Pisent (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)

15:30 seminar

Speaker: Andrea Pisent (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro)