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EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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INR 1000yesIIT Bombay

The Syllabus

  • Introduction to Accelerators
  • Accelerator as microscope
  • Up and down quarks
  • High voltage systems for accelerators -Charging and discharging of capacitors
  • Time constant of the circuit
  • Diode I-V characteristics
  • Introduction to DC accelerators-Cockcroft-Walton accelerators
  • Capacitance 
  • Neutron generation

  • Van de Graaff
  • Tandem
  • Pelletron accelerators 
  • Negative ions 
  • Electron stripping
  • Belt charging 
  • Induction charging 
  • Pellet chain
  • Generating Voltmeter
  • Corona feedback 
  • Voltage stabilisation 
  • Beam energy calibration

  • Beam focussing using electrostatic and magnetic lenses and beam optics 
  • Einzel lens
  • Functioning of quadrupole lenses
  • Beam focussing
  • Beam dynamics
  • Ion Sources
  • Duoplasmatron
  • SNICS ion source
  • Alphatross ion source
  • RF accelerator
  • Linear accelerator
  • Relativistic mechanics
  • Lorentz force
  • Magnetic field
  • Electric field

  • RF Acceleration
  • Isochronism
  • Principle of successive acceleration
  • Phase stability
  • Transit time factor
  • Wideroe linac
  • Alvarez linac
  • Electromagnetic waves in free space
  • TEM waves
  • Boundary conditions
  • Standing waves
  • Travelling waves
  • Modes
  • Cut off frequency
  • Guided wavelength
  • Waveguide
  • Rectangular waveguide
  • Cylindrical waveguide
  • Rectangular cavity 
  • Cylindrical cavity

  • Accelerating structures-Pillbox cavity and DTL
  • Accelerating structures- Travelling wave linacs and periodic accelerating structures
  • Power dissipation
  • Superconductivity 
  • Superconducting cavity
  • Normal conducting cavity
  • DC
  • CW
  • Pulsed beam
  • HWR
  • QWR
  • SSR
  • Elliptical cavity

  • Transverse Dynamics in Linacs
  • Different focusing lattices used in linacs
  • Hill’s equation and its solution
  • Twiss parameters and beam emittance
  • Space charge force
  • Beam phase space
  • Emittance
  • Beam distribution
  • KV distribution
  • Waterbag distribution
  • RMS emittance
  • Envelope
  • Equation with space charge

  • Longitudinal dynamics in LINACs
  • Synchronous phase
  • Phase stability
  • Separatrix
  • Separatrix phase width
  • Longitudinal stability 
  • Stability criteria
  • Synchronous oscillation with small and large amplitudes
  • Radio Frequency Quadrupole
  • Focusing in the RFQ
  • Beam bunching and acceleration in the RFQ
  • TE210 like mode in the RFQ cavity

  • Overview of the cyclic accelerators
  • Basic introduction to cyclotrons
  • Basic introduction to microtrons

  • Introduction to the coordinate system useful in accelerator physics
  • Geometric focusing 
  • Focusing for charged particle optics
  • Based on dipole magnet
  • Gradient and quadrupole magnet
  • Solving Hills’s equation using method of matrices
  • Transfer matrices of different elements
  • Analysis of optics
  • Using transfer matrices

  • Obtaining Twiss parameters and invariant of motion
  • Periodic optics and Twiss parameters
  • Concept of beam emittance
  • RMS emittance and normalized emittance
  • FODO optics and concept of stability
  • Introduction to dispersion and achromat

  • Chromaticity and its formula
  • Correction of chromaticity by sextupole magnets
  • Introduction to phase stability and synchrotron oscillations in a synchrotron 
  • Concept of booster and storage ring
  • Introduction to synchrotron radiation source

  • Proton synchrotron
  • Spallation Neutron Source
  • Collider
  • Luminosity
  • Wakefield
  • Electron plasma wave
  • Electron density perturbation
  • Plasma oscillation
  • Accelerating gradient

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