Overview of accelerator development and accelerator technologies.
Principles of linear and circular accelerators, storage rings,
colliders. Transverse phase space motion of a particle in an
accelerator. Radio frequency acceleration and synchrotron light
sources. Basics of free electron lasers. Spin dynamics in cyclic
accelerators and storage rings. USPAS sponsored by Boston University
and held in Waltham, Massachusetts June 12-23, 2006

P: approval of instructor

IS AN UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL COURSE
SECTION 9110 LIMITED TO OFF-CAMPUS USPAS STUDENTS