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Introduction to Particle Accelerators
Danny Graves, P.E.
Overview
This course will provide the
student with a general introduction to various types of particle accelerators,
their construction, and their practical uses. This course is useful for anyone
that may be involved with electrical, civil, or other type subprojects for
particle accelerator laboratory construction, renovation, or maintenance
projects, as well as engineers who work with low energy particle accelerators,
such as cathode ray tubes and X-ray generators, who are interested in learning
the fundamentals of high energy accelerators. This course is a general
introduction and does not delve deeply into physics equations or mathematics.
The
student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twelve (12) questions at the
end of this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
- Linear accelerators and their applications
- Circular accelerators, including
Synchrotrons and Cyclotrons
- Particle "steering" using electromagnets
- Accelerator targets
- Particle dump construction
- Particle colliders used for particle physics
research
- Understand the language associated with
particle accelerator projects
Course
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