Microwave Linear Accelerators
Course Description
- Microwave linear accelerators are introduced starting with the principles of acceleration,
accelerating structures, and microwave electronics as applied to the accelerator circuit.
- Structure
modelling and design are developed from an elementary point of view, with CAD lab exercises
for illustration.
- Topics include quality factor, [R/Q], shunt impedance, loss factor,
VSWR, Slater's theorem, external coupling, cell-to-cell coupling, Brillouin curve, tuning
errors, tuning, tolerances, field-symmetry.
- The behavior of standing-wave and
travelling-wave structures is analyzed on and off resonance, in cold test, and in operation
with beam loading.
- Additional topics will be touched on as they influence linac design
including rf systems, instrumentation, beam dynamics, wakefields. Illustrations and
exercises will be drawn from practical problems in industrial, medical and high energy physics
applications.
- Prerequisites: Vector Calculus, Electrodynamics.
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