2024 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
Particle Accelerator Engineering
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Nuclear Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Noriyosu Hayashizaki
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Intensive
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- NCL.A403
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course gives knowledge on fundamental principles various particle accelerators and the motion of charged particles in electromagnetic field.
Course description and aims
Understand the basic physics of accelerators including particle motion in electromagnetic fields and charge exchange of particles, and explain accelerator technologies related to electron guns, ion sources, high-voltage generators which are used to produce high energy charged particle beams.
Keywords
particle accelerator, electron beam, ion beam
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
The instructor gives a lecture and exercises every class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Concrete configurations of particle accelerators | Understand the history and major application of particle accelerators. |
| Class 2 | Fundamental principles and types of electrostatic accelerators | Understand the fundamental principles of various electrostatic accelerators. |
| Class 3 | Fundamental principles and types of linear accelerators | Understand the fundamental principles of various linear accelerators. |
| Class 4 | Fundamental principles and types of cyclic accelerators | Understand the fundamental principles of a cyclotron and a synchrotron. |
| Class 5 | Beam dynamics | Understand particle motion in accelerator and effects of typical magnets. |
| Class 6 | Beam acceleration and phase stability | Understand the principle of phase stability in beam acceleration. |
| Class 7 | Beam sources (electron guns and ion sources) and high-voltage generators | Understand the fundamental principles of beam sources and high-voltage generators. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
Textbook(s)
Stanley Humphries, Jr., "Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration", Dover Publications, ISBN-13: 978-0486498188 (2012).
Reference books, course materials, etc.
John J. Livingood, "Principles of Cyclic Particle Accelerators", D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., ISBN-13: 978-0-4420-4822-8 (1961).
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assessment is based on the quality of answers to quizzes given at the end of sessions.
Related courses
- TSE.A305 ： Electromagnetics (TSE)
- NCL.N401 ： Basic Nuclear Physics
Prerequisites
To have mastered mathematics, classical mechanics and electromagnetics of undergraduate level.