Accelerator physics
The accelerator physics is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the design, the construction and operation of particle accelerators is concerned. Around 800 people work in the field of accelerator physics in Germany. About half of them are part of the accelerator physics committee and are represented by its spokesman.
Accelerator physics can be roughly described as
- Investigation of the movement, manipulation and observation of relativistic , charged particle beams and their
- physical properties such as energy , space charge density , emittance , as well as their
- Interaction with electromagnetic fields of the accelerator structures.
There is therefore, among other things, overlaps with the areas
- High-frequency technology (for the design of acceleration structures as cavity resonators in the microwave range ),
- Optics with a focus on laser physics (laser-particle interaction) and geometric optics (for investigating the guiding and focusing properties of magnets) and
- Computer technology with a focus on digital signal processing (e.g. for automated beam manipulation).
The experiments carried out with the help of particle accelerators, for example in high-energy physics , solid-state physics or nuclear physics , are not included in accelerator physics .
Web links
- Accelerators and Storage Rings - Fundamentals of Particle Physics , accessed on May 2, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ DA Edwards, MJ Syphers, An Introduction to the Physics of High-Energy Accelerators , Wiley, 1993, ISBN 0-471-55163-5 .
- ↑ Frank Hinterberger, Physics of Particle Accelerators and Ion Optics , Springer, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-75281-3 .
- ↑ TIARA Needs for Accelerator Scientists Report Burrows, P. (JAI, University of Oxford) et al. 2013
- ↑ election protocol of choice for the Committee for Accelerator Physics 2013 ( Memento of 13 April 2014 Internet Archive ). Accelerator Physics Committee website, accessed April 12, 2014