Lecture Notes for PHY2405S

1) Introduction

2) Accelerators - Low Energy Machines, Klystrons, Betatron, Cyclotron

3) RF Cavities

4)  Magnetic Lenses and Weak Focusing

5)  Betatron Oscillations, Courant-Snyder, and Beam Emittance

6)  Phase Stability, Synchrotron Oscillations & the Transition Energy

7)  Resonances and Lattice Defects

8)  Damping of Betatron Oscillations

9)  Luminosity

10)  Beam-Beam Tune Shift

11)  Limits to Accelerator Energies

12)  Charged Particle Energy Loss in Matter

13)  Multiple Coulomb Scattering

14)  Photon Energy Loss in Matter

15)  Tracking Detectors, Diffusion, Signal Properties

16)   Drift Chambers & Time Projection Chambers

17) Solid State Trackers

18)  Scintillators

19)   Electromagnetic Calorimeters

20)   Hadronic Calorimeters

21)   Triggering

21)   The ATLAS Trigger

22)   Analysis

23)   Particle Identification

24)   Simulation of Experiments

Note:  These notes are in pdf format.