Introduction to Accelerator Physics - 2026

Name: Introduction to Accelerator Physics - 2026
Start: 2026-02-02T07:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-07T12:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

2 Feb 2026, 07:00 → 7 Feb 2026, 12:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN), Delphine Domange (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)), Marion Vanwelde

Contact

cedric.hernalsteens@cern.ch

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Monday 2 February
- Mon 2 Feb
- Tue 3 Feb
- Wed 4 Feb
- Thu 5 Feb
- Fri 6 Feb
- 1
  
  Registration as professional visitors Building 33
  
  Building 33
  
  CERN
- 08:30
  
  Welcome coffee R1
  
  R1
  
  CERN
  
  Restaurant 1.
- 08:50
  
  Walk from Restaurant 1 to lecture room 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  CERN
- 2
  
  Introduction to CERN and to the accelerator complex 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Django Manglunki
- 10:00
  
  Walk from Classroom to the SC
- 3
  
  Visit - Synchrocyclotron
  
  Speakers: Django Manglunki, Marion Vanwelde
- 10:50
  
  Coffee break
- 4
  
  Lecture - Introduction, DC accelerators, betatrons and linear accelerators 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break
- 5
  
  Visit - LHC Pt2
  
  Speakers: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN), Django Manglunki, Marion Vanwelde
- 16:30
  
  Coffee break
- 6
  
  Tutorials - Tutorial 1 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speakers: Delphine Domange (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE)), Marion Vanwelde
  
  Homework_I.pdf
Tuesday 3 February
- Mon 2 Feb
- Tue 3 Feb
- Wed 4 Feb
- Thu 5 Feb
- Fri 6 Feb
- 7
  
  Lecture - Circular accelerators 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Marion Vanwelde
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break + Walk to AD
- 8
  
  Visit - Antiproton decelerator & ELENA
  
  Speaker: Django Manglunki
- 12:15
  
  Lunch break
- 9
  
  Visit - Large magnet factory 180/R-001
  
  180/R-001
  
  Speaker: Arjan Verweij (CERN)
- 14:30
  
  Coffee break + Walk to B6
- 10
  
  Lecture - Transverse motion 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Marion Vanwelde
- 11
  
  Tutorials - Tutorial 2 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Homework_II.pdf
Wednesday 4 February
- Mon 2 Feb
- Tue 3 Feb
- Wed 4 Feb
- Thu 5 Feb
- Fri 6 Feb
- 12
  
  Visit - LEIR and Billinge room
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
  
  Introduction_to_longitudinal_beam_dynamics_part_1_final.pdf
  
  Introduction_to_longitudinal_beam_dynamics_part_1_final.pptx
- 10:10
  
  Coffee break + Walk to Isolde
- 13
  
  Visit - ISOLDE 37/R-022
  
  37/R-022
  
  CERN
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- 14
  
  Lecture - Longitudinal motion 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
  
  Introduction_to_longitudinal_beam_dynamics_part_2.pdf
  
  Introduction_to_longitudinal_beam_dynamics_part_2.pptx
- 15:00
  
  Coffee break
- 15
  
  Lecture - Longitudinal motion 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
- 16
  
  Tutorials - Tutorial 3 6/2-008
  
  6/2-008
  
  Homework_III.pdf
Thursday 5 February
- Mon 2 Feb
- Tue 3 Feb
- Wed 4 Feb
- Thu 5 Feb
- Fri 6 Feb
- 17
  
  Lecture - Cyclotrons 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
- 09:50
  
  Coffee break
- 18
  
  Seminar - Experimental high energy physics 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- 19
  
  Visit - ATLAS
  
  Speaker: Karolos Potamianos (University of Warwick (GB))
- 15:00
  
  Coffee break
- 20
  
  Lecture - Synchrotrons 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
- 21
  
  Tutorials - Tutorial 4 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
  
  Homework_IV.pdf
- 19:30
  
  Fondue
Friday 6 February
- Mon 2 Feb
- Tue 3 Feb
- Wed 4 Feb
- Thu 5 Feb
- Fri 6 Feb
- 22
  
  Lecture - Colliders 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
  
  Speaker: Cedric Hernalsteens (CERN)
- 10:30
  
  Coffee break
- 23
  
  Seminar - Proton and ion filling schemes for the LHC 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018
  
  Speaker: Django Manglunki
  
  LHC-filling-E-20250208.pdf
  
  LHC-filling-E-20250208.pptx
- 12:00
  
  Lunch break
- 24
  
  Visit - CCC
  
  Speaker: Django Manglunki
- 15:30
  
  Coffee break
- 25
  
  Close out and Q&A 6/R-018
  
  6/R-018

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