Second International Accelerator School for Linear Colliders

Session

Morning Session

2 Oct 2007, 09:00

ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE

0. Opening Remarks

Weiren Chou (Fermilab)

02/10/2007, 09:00

1. Lecture I - Introduction

Nicholas Walker (DESY)

02/10/2007, 09:10

• Why LC
• What’s ILC
• Layout of ILC
• Parameter choices & optimization
• Overview of accelerator issues

4. Lecture 3 – Damping ring I

Andrzej Wolski (Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool)

03/10/2007, 09:00

• Role of damping rings
• High-level overview of structure, and principles of operation
• Review of basic linear beam dynamics
• Damping ring lattice
• Radiation damping (derivation of damping times, and the need for a damping wiggler in LC damping rings)
• Quantum excitation and equilibrium beam

5. Lecture 3 – Damping ring II

Andrzej Wolski (Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool)

04/10/2007, 09:00

• Brief overview of technical systems
• R&D challenges for selected technical components
 injection/extraction kickers
 damping wiggler
• Brief overview of beam dynamics issues
• Selected beam dynamics issues
 impedance effects
 electron cloud effects

6. Lecture 5 – LLRF & high power RF

Stefan Simrock (DESY)

05/10/2007, 09:00

• RF system overview
• LLRF
• Timing and synchronization
• Modulators
• Klystrons
• RF distribution

11. Lecture 6 – Superconducting RF I

Kenji Saito (KEK)

06/10/2007, 09:00

• Superconductivity basics
• SRF specifics and constraints
• Cavity design
• Cryogenics
• ILC cryomodules

12. Lecture 6 – Superconducting RF II

Kenji Saito (KEK)

07/10/2007, 09:00

• Material issues
• Cavity fabrication and tuning
• Surface preparation
• Gradient limit and spread
• Power Coupler
• HOM Couplers
• Slow and fast tuner
• ILC design

13. Lecture 8 – Instrumentation & control II

Marc Ross (FNAL)

08/10/2007, 09:00

• Electronics
• Data processing

14. Lecture 9 – Operations

Marc Ross (FNAL)

08/10/2007, 10:30

• Reliability
• Availability
• Remote control and global network

15. Final Exam

09/10/2007, 08:00