Formation of muon beams sufficiently intense to drive a Neutrino Factory or Muon Collider, requires multi-stage systems, capable of handling high-intensity beams occupying very large phase-space volumes.  The major stages that comprise such facilities: proton driver, production, capture, phase rotation, cooling, acceleration and storage, are not only strongly interlinked, but, individually, represent advanced, forefront systems in accelerator physics.  This course will cover the basic concepts of each stage and present the novel approaches developed to handle this "next" generation of high-energy accelerators.  Invited experts in Neutrino accelerator physics from international facilities will present guest lectures on some of the topics.

 

Course Material

 

All course material for the main lectures and the guest lectures will be posted on the web.

For each of the lectures homework problems are assigned. Many homework problems are fully interactive over the web and based on the WebCOSY system developed in the Beamtheory and Dynamical Systems Group at MSU.

The grade for the course is determined by the performance with the homework problems.

 

Prerequisites

 

· Undergraduate Degree in Physics or equivalent (like German "Vordiplom")

· Upper Division Mechanics, equivalent to MSU PHY321; Upper Division Electrodynamics, equivalent to MSU PHY481

 

Registration and Credit

 

To register for the course, please visit http://vubeam.pa.msu.edu/register.html. Students that are enrolled as degree candidates may also enroll through the regular MSU computer or telephone enrollment system.

 

· All out of state degree candidates will receive scholarship support to reduce their tuition obligation to the same level as that paid by Michigan residents.

· Financial aid is available for students regularly enrolled at an accredited US university or foreign universities. For information, see http://vubeam.pa.msu.edu/register.html.

· The Virtual University Beam Physics Tuition Fellowship is awarded on a competitive basis; for more information, see http://vubeam.pa.msu.edu/register.html.

· Teaching- or Research Assistantships during any period of residency at MSU are awarded on a competitive basis

· Participants from the Big Ten Universities and the University of Chicago can formally register for the course through the CIC Traveling Scholars program.