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ACCELERATORI DI PARTICELLE

CODE 109092
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023
CREDITS
  • 6 cfu during the 1st year of 9012 FISICA(LM-17) - GENOVA
  • 6 cfu during the 3nd year of 8758 FISICA (L-30) - GENOVA
  • 6 cfu during the 2nd year of 9012 FISICA(LM-17) - GENOVA
  • SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR FIS/01
    TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
  • SEMESTER 2° Semester
    TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

    OVERVIEW

    The course presents the state-of-art of particle accelerators presently in operation, describing their main features and the most important physical laws and technological limitations defining their performances.

    AIMS AND CONTENT

    LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The course is mainly devoted to the students interested in particle physics on accelerators, but can, in the final part, focus more on the medical and technical applications of these machines, according to the students preferences. The primal goal is giving all the needed information to understand the capabilities and the limitations of accelerating machines.

    AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

    The various types of accelerators will be described to the students, along with the main features of the beams that every machine can deliver. The technological and physically intrinsic limitations of each typology will be analysed in detail, thus allowing the students to fully understand how the particle physics experiment are interfaced with the accelerators and how the particles beams are produced for medical purposes, material analyses, and other tasks. The main goal of the course is getting the best comprehension of the features characterising the accelerated beams, such as emittance, dispersion, luminosity and others, and the technological choices that allow for these results.

    PREREQUISITES

    Electromagnetism
    Principles of special relativity
    Principles of nuclear and subnuclear physics

    TEACHING METHODS

    The course is based on lectures (48 hours) normally held by the teacher. For selected topics, after an agreement with the students, it will be possible for them to be requested to prepare short presentations, which will be considered as a bonus for the final exam.

    SYLLABUS/CONTENT

    Definitions and aim of particle accelerators
    Electrostatic accelerators and principles of special relativity
    Accelerators with radio-frequencies, circular machines and synchronous particle
    Radio-frequency cavities
    Weak focusing
    Mechanics of trajectories, Hamiltonian formalism and Liouville's theorem
    Bending magnets, combined and separated functions
    Beam optics: multipoles
    Dispersion and emittance
    Strong focusing
    FODO cell and synchrotrons
    Synchrotron oscillations
    Resonances
    Space charge effects
    Beam cooling
    An electron LINAC: CEBAF
    A proton synchrotron: LHC
    Extracted muon and neutrino beams: Fermilab and PSI
    Beams for nuclear reactors and other applications

    RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Conte - MacKay, An Introduction to the Physics of Particle Accelerators, World Scientific

    TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

    Exam Board

    ANDREA BERSANI (President)

    STEFANIA FARINON

    MATTEO DE GERONE (President Substitute)

    LESSONS

    Class schedule

    All class schedules are posted on the EasyAcademy portal.

    EXAMS

    EXAM DESCRIPTION

    The final exam will be an interview of the student on the whole course content. Facultatively the students will be allowed to prepare a short presentation on a selected topic, designed in agreement with the teacher.

    ASSESSMENT METHODS

    The student will face an oral exam covering the whole content of the course.

    Exam schedule

    Date Time Location Type Notes
    30/06/2023 14:30 GENOVA Orale
    19/07/2023 14:30 GENOVA Orale
    20/09/2023 14:30 GENOVA Orale

    FURTHER INFORMATION

    Office hours for students
    Bersani Andrea
    Dipartimento di Fisica, L105 (primo piano), su appuntamento
    0103356655
    bersani@ge.infn.it