Nordic Particle Accelerator School, NPAS2017

Scientific Programme

Introduction to basic accelerator physics including classical mechanics, electrodynamics and special relativity; Description of linear accelerators, synchrotrons, storage rings for generating electromagnetic radiation, and Spallation sources and colliders; Overview of microwave systems, resistive and superconducting magnets, normal conducting and superconducting RF cavities, cryogenic equipment, vacuum systems, power supplies, beam diagnostics; Particle Beam Physics: Longitudinal and transverse beam dynamics, synchrotron radiation, nonlinear radiation physics, the magnetic system of storage rings, calculation methods for radiation physics; Use of accelerator technology in nuclear and particle physics, materials science, medicine and biology; Overview of new accelerator technologies based on powerful lasers in plasma.