After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• to give a historical overview of particle accelerators
• to introduce the basic concepts of the existing and relevant types of accelerators
• to explain main characteristics of particle accelerators in detail and comment on specifications
• to classify dominant properties
• to characterise main acclerator centers and explain their main research fields
• to be familiar with terminology and applications

1. Particle accelerators, centers of fundamental research, comercially available products for medical and technical applications
2. Electron- and ion sources
3. Electrostatic accelerators
4. Linear accelerators
5. Betatron
6. Cyclotron
7. Synchrotron
8. Alternating gradient focussing
9. Typical accelerators
10. Storage rings, colliding beam experiments
11. Outlook
12. National projects

lecture

preliminary to a possible Austrian doctoral studentship at CERN

oral exam

Ort: e-mail: michael.benedikt@cern.ch oder Tel: +41-75-411-4187 oder in der Vorbesprechung oder via TISS

Lecture notes for this course are available. Skriptum wird in Vorlesung ausgeteilt

basics in radiation physics requested