A field where jobs go begging

Anding

Thanks HDave for your thoughts

An additional question - does "accelerator physics" as a field generally include the particle detectors, or just the machine that does the particle accleration?

HDave

That's a good question and I would guess the detectors and accelerators are closely related and you would be able to work on either.
However, accelerators can be used for a variety of tasks and unless you are building something used for experiments and particle detection, you probably won't really be working much on detectors.

ZapperZ

The "particle detection" part may come in in the diagnostics used to characterize the beam parameter. One could say that instruments such as the ICT (integrated charge transformer), Faraday Cup, YAG screens, beam positioning monitors (BPM), etc. are particle detectors, because they measure charge per bunch, beam positions, etc. While we need those instruments in a typical accelerator, and need to know how they work, the study of these things typically is not covered as part of an accelerator curriculum beyond just a description on what they do and how they are used.

Now mind you, the study of beam diagnostics itself is part of accelerator physics. Techniques to measure beam emittance, beam profile, bunch length, etc.. etc. using these instruments are a significant part of accelerator physics, and there are people who concentrate on those. I had a summer undergraduate intern who made a very fast (hundreds of ps time resolution) Faraday cup for his project in accelerator physics. So it is definitely an area that is within accelerator physics.

Zz.

ThereIam

First, thanks to ZapperZ for posting and continuing to contribute to a really awesome thread. This is the sort of thread we all long to see in this sub forum!

Second, I was looking at the particle accelerator school website and I found this bit about the masters program:

http://uspas.fnal.gov/programs2/mast...ee/index.shtml

Anyone have any experience with this?

Lyrassia

Thank you Zapper for this awesome thread! Profiled.

tsork

Hey Zapper,

I'm having trouble finding information about accelerator graduate programs in Canada and employment afterwards as well...

would you happen to know about the current state of accelerator science in Canada? and any Graduate programs?

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Anding	A field where jobs go begging Thanks HDave for your thoughts An additional question - does "accelerator physics" as a field generally include the particle detectors, or just the machine that does the particle accleration?

HDave	That's a good question and I would guess the detectors and accelerators are closely related and you would be able to work on either. However, accelerators can be used for a variety of tasks and unless you are building something used for experiments and particle detection, you probably won't really be working much on detectors.

ThereIam	First, thanks to ZapperZ for posting and continuing to contribute to a really awesome thread. This is the sort of thread we all long to see in this sub forum! Second, I was looking at the particle accelerator school website and I found this bit about the masters program: http://uspas.fnal.gov/programs2/mast...ee/index.shtml Anyone have any experience with this?

tsork	Hey Zapper, I'm having trouble finding information about accelerator graduate programs in Canada and employment afterwards as well... would you happen to know about the current state of accelerator science in Canada? and any Graduate programs?