Welcome to the Accelerator Physics eNotes

These eNotes are collected through the preparation of the graudate accelerator physics class in Michigan State University and the US Particle Accelerator School.

Most chapters adopt contents and style from the following textbooks and lecture notes:

• S.Y. Lee, Accelerator Physics, Fourth Edition, World Scientific

• Alex Wu Chao, Special Topics in Accelerator Physics, World Scientific

• G. Stupakov and G. Penn, Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics, Springer

Part I: Transverse Dynamics

• 1. Overview of Accelerator Magnets
• 2. Linear Transverse Motion
• 3. Twiss Parametrization
• 4. Perturbation of transverse motion
• 5. Linear Coupling
• 6. Off Momentum Orbit
• 7. Chromatic Effect
• 8. Intro to Nonlinearity
• 9. Case Study: FODO Cell

Part II: Longitudinal Dynamics

• 10. Longitudinal Dynamics

Part III: Electron Storage Ring

• 11. Synchrotron Radiation
• 12. Dynamics in Electron Storage Ring

Appendix

• Primer on symplecticity