The Cockcroft Institute Education Programme Neil Marks, The Cockcroft Institute, ASTeC and The University of Liverpool Department of Physics.

Overview of presentation Governance. Objectives: i) goals; ii) route-map. 3. Delivery: i) overview; ii) statistics; iii) lectures and lecturers; iv) dissemination. External Links: i) John Adams Institute (JAI); ii) CERN Accelerator School (CAS); iii) U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS). 5. Administration: i) attendance records; ii) student feed-back; 6. Future: i) review of previous 3 years and plans for advancing.

Governance The head of education and training reports to the CI director; and attends the Cockcroft Institute Management Committee (CIMC), when required, to report/consult; and is advised by the ‘Cockcroft Institute Education and training Committee’ (CIETC); which is composed of: senior academics from Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster universities; senior accelerator physicists from ASTeC; and meets 3 to 4 times a year.

Objectives - goals 1. To provide our post-graduate students over the three years of their degree with a comprehensive education in accelerator science and technology – irrespective of their area of specialisation; To provide each new cohort of post-grad students, early in their academic course, with a sound introduction to the basics of accelerator physics and technology: i) a basic outline of accelerator development; ii) longitudinal and transverse single particle and collective beam dynamics; iii) basic magnet and rf technology.

Objectives – route-map. Cockcroft-06-01 ‘CI Lecture programme - Syllabus and long term aims’ (approved by CIETC in March 2006) defines: i) the physics and mathematics learning and ability expected of post-graduate students; ii) the topics and syllabi for basic accelerator physics and technology courses, with an aim to cover these topics frequently (each year if possible); iii) a syllabus for advanced accelerator physics and technology, aimed for each subject to be delivered at least once in a three year period.

Delivery – overview. July 09 will end of the first complete 3 year cycle; most of the principle subjects identified in Cockcroft 06-01 will have been delivered; the physics and technology courses have been supplemented by: short revision courses at the beginning of each year; maths courses relevant to acc. phys.; a loose sequence has been developed and lecturers identified; coverage of the basic accelerator physics and technology has been aided by students attending the introductory CERN Accelerator School (CAS) (even years).

Education Statistics Numbers of 1 hour lectures (including early lectures in 05/06) per academic year: 05/06 06/07 07/08 TOTALS Accelerator physics and mathematics - basic 24 20 44 Accelerator physics and mathematics - advanced. 35 23 82 Accelerator technology - basic 8 14 42 Accelerator technology - advanced 10 31 51 TOTAL 66 80 73 219

Course Details: 03/06 – 01/09 Basic ‘B’ = ‘basic’; ‘A’ = ‘advanced’; ‘P’ = physics; ‘M’ = ‘mathematics’; ‘T’ = ‘technology’ Subject Lecturer Course type No. of courses presented Introduction to accelerators M. Poole B ;P/T 2 Relativity and Electro- mag. revision C.Prior B; P/M Transverse dynamics B. Holzer B; P Longitudinal dynamics J. Leduff R.F. Science/Engineering Carter/Seviour B; P/T Linacs R. Jones 1 Magnets in Accelerators (inc. practical) N. Marks Accelerator diagnostics G. Rehm Synchrotron radiation applications Bushnell-Wye.

Course Details: 03/06 – 01/ 09 Advanced Subject Lecturer Type No. of courses Linear dynamics A. Wolski A; P/M 1 Lattice design codes (and practical) Owen/Muratori A; P Wake-fields and collective effects R.Jones 2 Generation & properties of synch. rad. J.Clarke A; P/T Damping rings Spin polarisation Barber/Moortgat-Pick Super-conducting R.F. Systems J. Delayen A; T Vacuum systems in accelerators R.Reid Superconducting magnets M. Wilson AC and pulsed magnets N.Marks FFAGs S. Machida Lasers and accelerators G.Hurst Free electron lasers B.McNeil Lagrangian & Hamiltonian dynamics V. Perlick A; M Maths tools for accelerators Tucker/Burton/Gratus

Courses being delivered or planned for up to 6/09 ‘B’ = ‘basic’; ‘A’ = ‘advanced’; ‘P’ = physics; ‘M’ = ‘mathematics’; ‘T’ = ‘technology’ Subject Lecturer Course type Intense beams C. Prior A; P Feed-back systems and orbit control M. Boege A; P/T Introduction to R.F. systems G. Burt B; T Non-linear dynamics A.Wolski Emmitance cooling S.Chattopadhyay

Lecturer acknowledgements We endeavour to maintain a balance between in-house and visiting lecturers: In-House Visitors S.Chattophyay (CI Director) M.W.Poole (ASTeC Director) B.Holzer (DESY/CERN) R.Carter (U. of Lancaster) R. Seviour (U. of Lancaster) J. LeDuff (Consultant) R. Jones (U. of Manchester) J. Clarke (ASTeC) G. Rehm (DLS) A Wolski (U. of Liverpool) B. Muratori (ASTeC) G. Bushnell-Wye (STFC-D.L.) C.Prior (ASTeC/Oxford) H.Owen (Manchester) J. Delayen ( Jefferson Lab.) R. Tucker (U. of Lancaster) S. Machida (ASTeC-RAL) G. Hurst (STFC-RAL) D.Burton (U. of Lancaster) G. Burt (U. of Lancaster) B. McNeil (U. of Strathclyde) J. Gratus (U. of Lancaster) R. Reid (ASTeC) M. Boege (SLS - PSI) V. Perlick (U. of Lancaster) Marks (ASTeC/Liverpool) D.Barber (DESY/Liverpool) G. Moortgat-Pick (Durham) M. Wilson (Consultant)

Dissemination Lectures are: web-cast live (free-to-air) with video transmission of lecturer and overheads, together with sound, at: ‘http://extrplay.dl.ac.uk’; recorded (video and sound) from Autumn 2007 onwards and available as archive material on CI website: ‘http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/education.htm’ archived overheads (for most courses from Summer 2006) can also be viewed and down-loaded from the same site.

External Links - JAI Close contact is maintained with the John Adams Institute (JAI) through: the JAI director (Prof. Ken Peach); the JAI head of education (Prof. Ted Wilson); exchange of lecturers: Chris Prior (JAI); Shinji Machida (JAI); Andy Wolski (CI); Neil Marks (CI).

External Links - CAS Members of the CI participate significantly in CERN Accelerator School (CAS) activities: organising and programme committees: A. Wolski; N. Marks; lecturing/tutoring at CAS schools: A. Wolski, J.A.Clarke; B.Muratori; J. Jones; N. Marks. The CI sponsored and hosted an Intermediate CAS, in September 2007:  2 weeks in length;  85 students from internationally located institutes; CI staff and students were able to attend plenary sessions and interact with lecturers and CAS students.

‘USPAS, CERN, KEK and INP (Novosibirsk)’ External Links - USPAS Cockcroft Institute members have also developed links and lectured at U.S. Particle Accelerator Schools: Andy Wolski, Roger Jones, James Jones, and Deepa Angal-Kalinin (at the International School on Linear Colliders). Now a proposal from W.A. Barletta (Director of USPAS)* to explore the possibility for the CI to: ‘join forces’ with: ‘USPAS, CERN, KEK and INP (Novosibirsk)’ ‘to hold a topical international school in the UK, Europe or USA’. This is now being further discussed. * mail to S. Chattopadhyay, 3/2/09.

Administration and can provide general comment. attendees sign-in for each lecture; statistics on a term-by-term basis are available to CI management, NWDA and the university supervisors of the post-grad students; at the end of each lecture course, students are invited to complete a feed-back pro-forma anonymously, commenting on level; content; presentation; and can provide general comment.

The Future The autumn 09 programme will follow the pattern of providing an introduction to basic accelerator physics & technology for the new cohort of post-grad students; BUT: An ‘extraordinary’ (enlarged) meeting of the CIETC is envisaged during summer 2009, with student representation as well as the CI professional staff, to: review the previous 3 year’s programme; examine the programme in the light of the 3 year old ‘route-plan’ (Cockcroft-06-01); consider how the education programme can be further broadened and advanced; develop a new ‘route-plan’ for re-issue and delivery.