Charged Particle Accelerators and Beams

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: PHYSICS 240 or PHYSICS 260; or EECS 230. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Principles of electrostatic and electrodynamic charged particle accelerators, magnetic and electrostatic focusing, transient analysis of pulsed accelerators. Generation of intense electron and ion beams. Dynamics, stability, and beam transport in vacuum, neutral and ionized gases. Intense beams as drivers of coherent radiation generation. Novel accelerations using plasma and dielectric materials.