YoungParticlePhysicists@SLAC

Young Particle Physicists

Accelerator Physics Lecture Series

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Invitation and Schedule

Schedule:

Lecture 1 Wednesday, 12 March 12:30 The Linear Collider [pdf] Tor Raubenheimer
Lecture 2 Wednesday 19 March  12:30 New Technologies [ppt] Bob Siemann
Lecture 3 Wednesday 26 March 12:30 Superfast X-Ray Sources Jerry Hastings

Location:

All lectures will be held in the Redwood Room C&D.

Abstracts:

The Linear Collider: "The worldwide HEP community has endorsed the construction of a 500 GeV linear collider as the next major HEP instrument.  At present there are two technologies that could be used to build the collider: a normal conducting rf system at 11 GHz (four times the SLAC rf frequency) and a superconducting rf system at 1.3 GHz.  Both approaches plan to complete feasibility demonstrations during the next twelve months and there are plans for the international community to select one of the two options in the summer of 2004.  This talk will review these two linear collider designs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each."

New Technologies. "An introduction to advanced accelerator research will be followed by an incomplete survey of some of the work in this field.  There will then be presentations of two topics of current research at SLAC.  The first of these is beam/plasma physics, which is being studied in experiments E157, E162, E164 and E164X at the SLAC FFTB.  One goal of this research is doubling the energy of a linear collider with a "Plasma Afterburner".  The second topic is laser driven accelerators (the LEAP project and SLAC experiment E163) that has the goal of taking advantage of recent developments in near IR lasers for particle acceleration."


Ultrafast X-Ray Sources at SLAC: SPPS and LCLS. "The push toward femtosecond x-ray pulses to probe  both equilibrium and non-equibrium dynamics of gases, liquids and solids has stimulated the development of linac based ultrafast x-ray sources.  The SLAC linac is a unique driver for such sources and forms the basis of the SPPS, a spontaneous radiation source, and the LCLS an x-ray free electron laser.  I will describe the scientific opportunities and the technological challenges these sources pose."
 


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