Post-graduate Lecture Courses: Academic Year 2005-6

It is recognised that post-graduate students in the Cockcroft Institute come from many different disciplines, and that they work on projects spanning a wide range of different aspects of engineering and physics. As such, the teaching programme consists of a wide variety of courses. The core of the academic programme contains a broad introduction to accelerator science and technology (AST) while the specialist courses focus on topics important to AST.

In addition to the courses detailed below, students may also access the introductory course on accelerator science given by Dr E Wilson (CERN) via video link at their home institution.
Autumn term 2005 : 10-11am on Thursdays and Fridays from 13th October to 2nd December 2005
Spring term 2006 : 10-11am on Thursdays and 11am-12pm on Fridays from 26th January to 10th March 2006
Students interested in this option should email ted.wilson@cern.ch and speak to their local video-conference provider.

During the summer term 2006, the Cockcroft Institute will move from temporary accommodation within the Daresbury Laboratory to building 2 of the Daresbury International Science and Technology Park. It is presently planned that the lecture series will commence in the Tower Seminar Room, Daresbury Laboratory but move to the new building at the beginning of June. However, those wishing to attend from outside the Cockcroft Institute and ASTeC during June are advised to check with Liz Kennedy (E.L.A.Kennedy@dl.ac.uk) concerning the venue.

The lectures are open to all members of UK and overseas Universities, the Adams Institute (Oxford/Royal Holloway) and to members of establishments such as STFC Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory. For those travelling to the Daresbury venue to attend lectures, the Cockcroft Institute will reimburse all travelling expenses within the UK. Those wishing to attend lectures who are not members of the Cockcroft Institute or STFC ASTeC are asked to notify the Cockcroft Institute in advance.
(email Liz Kennedy at E.L.A.Kennedy@dl.ac.uk)

Suggested Reading

The following are a suggested list of text books and sources which are available. They are compiled from sources such as http://www.kvi.nl/~brandenburg/accelera.htm and are offered only as a starting point.

• "Particle Accelerator Physics: basic principles and linear beam dynamics" H. Wiedemann Springer Verlag, Berlin (1993) ISBN 3540565507
• "Principles of charged particle Acceleration" (available from the web), Stanley Humphries, originally published by John Wiley and Sons, New York , ISBN 0471878782
• "An Introduction to the Physics of High Energy Accelerators", D.A. Edwards and M.J. Syphers, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1993) ISBN 0471551635
• "An Introduction to Particle Accelerators, E. Wilson", Oxford University Press (Oxford ), (2001) ISBN 0198508298
• "The Physics of Particle Accelerators: an Introduction", K. Wille, Oxford University Press (2001) ISBN 0198505493
• "Physik der Teilchenbeschleuniger", F. Hinterberger, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1997) ISBN 3540612386
• "Fundamentals of Beam Physics", J. Rosenzweig, Oxford University Press (2003) ISBN 0198525540
• "Particle Accelerator Physics: nonlinear and higher order beam dynamics", H. Wiedemann Springer Verlag, Berlin (1998) ISBN 3540645047
• "Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering", A.W. Chao and M. Tigner World Scientific, Singapore (1999) ISBN 9810235003
• "Physics of Collective Beam Instabilities in High Energy Accelerators" (available from the web), A. W. Chao, originally published by John Wiley and Sons, New York (1993) ISBN 0471551848
• "Theory of Cyclic Accelerators", A A Kolomensky, A N Lebedev, North Holland (1966)