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2024/2025

Accelerators in Medicine and Technology

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16XUMT KZ 1 1P+0C
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Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation
Synopsis:

Introduction to accelerators, their history and classification, and description of accelerators parameters. Description of ion sources, all types of linear accelerators (electro-static, induction, oscillating fields), circular accelerators (induction, oscillating fields, synchrotrons) and technologies connected to accelerators. The focus lies in accelerators applications, foremost in medicine and technology (industry), but also in basic research, with examples of such applications

Requirements:

A fundamental understanding of physics topics of electricity and magnetism as well as nuclear physics.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Classification of accelerators

2. Ion sources

3. Linear accelerators

4. Circular accelerators

5. Applications of accelerators – medical and synchrotron radiation

6. Applications of accelerators – technology and basic research

7. Technologies on accelerators

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Study Objective:

Knowledge:

The fundamentals and different types of particle accelerators, their applications and related problems (like radiation protection).

Abilities:

Understanding the principle of accelerators and their use in practice.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] S. Humphries, Jr., Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, Dover Publications 2012.

[2] E. Wilson, An Introduction to Particle Accelerators, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010.

Recommended references:

[3] H. Wiedemann: Particle Accelerator Physics (4th Edition), Springer 2015

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