Dr. Michael Syphers
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The largest, highest energy research accelerators circulate charged particles for many hours at a time, corresponding to billions of orbits. Though designed with simple linear restoring forces to keep the particle beams contained, real implementation necessarily brings about nonlinear field perturbations and their implications in the operation of these devices. Special measures must be taken in the design of accelerators to take into account the nonlinear behavior of the particle motion, sometimes leading to new advantageous applications.
Thursday, January 7 at 11:00 AM
F235, Technological Institute