An Incomplete Education in Accelerator Technology

Monday, August 3 through Friday, August 14, 1998
9:00 - 11:00 AM in Curia II, Wilson Hall
Schedule Details & Some Suggested Topics

Aug. 3 - Basic Principles - Steve Holmes
1) Intro/course outline (~30 mins) Bill Foster
Include reading list.
2) Steve will give a talk (derived from his engineering seminar) on basic principles.
- Different types of accelerators.
- Brief into to FNAL accel layouts & params.

Aug. 4 - Linear Beam Optics - Shekhar Mishra
Lecture roughly equivalent to Bryant & Johnsen Ch. 2-4
1) Linear Optics
How magnets bend beams
Weak vs. strong focussing
Matrix formulation
Twiss Parameters
Emittance
Dispersion
Closed orbits vs. transfer lines
Cell Design
Inserts
Low Beta
2) Software Machine Design Tools [TBD]
Tour: there will be a Booster walk-thru for the collider grad students at ~10:20 AM. Gary Lauten will give the safety orientation in Curia II at ~10:00, then we will meet with the tour guides in the Main Control room at ~10:20. Tour guides (so far):
Bob Webber
Steve Holmes
Dave McGinnis
Jim Lackey
Gary Lauten
NOTE: a link to a series of very interesting pages on the Fermilab accelerator chain can be found at http://adrfpc01.fnal.gov/DaveMc/misc/uw600/Default.htm

Aug. 5 - Longitudinal Phase Space - Mike Martens
[Tour after lecture: Walk-thru by RF group]

Lecture roughly equiv to Sphers & Edwards Chapter 2
- Phase stability
- Dispersion
- Eta
- Transition energy
- bucket area, etc.
- longitudinal emittance
- intrabeam scattering
- resonant cavities
- barrier bucket systems
- RF Power sources (maybe delay this to Aug 11th?)

Aug. 6 - Magnet Design Principles - G.W. Foster
[Tour after Lecture: Walk thru magnet factory/MTF]

Ampere turns
Copper Coils
Water cooling
Heat transfer
Iron Properties
Magnetic Forces
Inductance
Power Supplies
Permanent Magnets
Superconductor properties
(Type I,II, pinning forces, flux jump, AC losses..)
Conductor motion quenches and Quench protection
Field Quality
Multipoles & Integrated Fields
Harmonics Probes
How to run POISSON on your PC

Aug. 7 - Managing Big Money Projects - Dixon Bogert
[Tour After Lecture: Main Injector Construction]

DoE line managment from Duane Plant to Bill Clinton
Structure of a large DoE Project (KD's, schedule XX's...)
Trade-offs in Contract Management
FNAL Bidding procedures
Labor Relations
Vendor Relations
What's underground at Fermilab
Common & Uncommon Techniques in Civil Construction
Flooding & other War Stories
Why a physicist should be interested in all of this.

Aug. 10 - Vacuum Systems - Gerry Jackson
[Tour: walk thru MI-8 vacuum weld shop. If we are nice to Gerry he might arrange to let some of you humiliate yourselves by atempting to weld something.]

Physics of Vacuum Requirements for accelerators & storage rings.
Factors determining vacuum quality
Gas Species, Outgassing, Adsorbtion
Bakeout
Beam Tube, conductances, etc.
Alloys, ceramics etc.
Vacuum Seals
Welding
Cleaning
Pumps
Getters
Cryopumping
Instrumentation
Layout of typical Vacuum systems @FNAL
Top 10 Vacuum Disasters

Aug. 11 - Pulsed Power & HV - Bill Foster
[Tour: walk thru by power & kicker group]

Why you need pulsed power
Kicker magnet designs
Lithium lenses
Septa magnets
RF Power sources
Modulators
Resonant vs. Pulsed systems
PFN's and Capacitors
Blumlines
Water Lines
SCR's
Thyratrons & other gas tubes
Spark gaps
laser triggered swithces
Saturable reactors
HV cables
Monster power suplies

Aug. 12 - Antiprotons - Paul Derwent
[Tour: walk thru Pbar tunnels, eat lunch in target vault]

Pbar Production cross sections
6-D phase space
Bunch Rotation & Debunching
Why 120 GeV / 8 GeV?
Focussing, Spot size, Target Survival
Beam Sweeping
Acceptance
Stochastic cooling
-theory
-hardware
Plans for upcomming run

Aug. 13 - Cryogenics - Mike McAshan
[Tour: walk thru Central Helium Liquifier]

(Lecture partly comparable to the fun stuff in ch 1 & 2 of Flynn, "Cryo Engineering")
Basic principles
Great moments in Cryogenic History, Cryo Nobel prizes, etc.
Properties of cryogenic fluids
How Helium plants are the same & different
Microscopic origin of J-T coeff's, inversion temp, etc.
Compressors and Expanders
Heat Exchangers
Properties of Materials at low temperatures
Minimizing heat leaks: vacuum insulation, heat intercepts...
Theory of Multilayer Insulation
Thermo-acoustic oscillations
Thermometry & Barometry etc.
Ten bad ways to make a Mass Flow Meter
Concepts in Process Control & failure modes
How to think about Capital and Operating costs
What's inside the CHL

Aug. 14 - Controls Systems - Gerry Annala
[Tour: walk all the way around the Tevatron tunnel]

What the control system does on every pulse of the Tevatron.
- fault tree for the accelerator complex
- map of all possible beam transfers
- the need for & logic of each subsystem
- timing requirements
- the way it works (hardware, software, etc.)
- the way it fails
- Top Ten Trickiest Controls Subsystems
(i.e. why some of you gotta apply for the job openings in the controls group!)