Superconducting Magnet Courses

A list of courses (with links) on Superconducting Accelerator Magnets with Ramesh Gupta as one of the instructors.

Informal tutorials for designing superconducting accelerator magnets (based on lectures at 2006 Particle Accelerator School with YouTube Videos at BNL. Please see chapters 1, 2, and 8-11 next):

•  Magnetic Design: General Principles, Chapter 3 (YouTube Video , Write-up)
•  Magnetic Design: Coil Optimization, Chapter 4 (YouTube Video)
•  Magnetic Design: Yoke Optimization, Chapter 5 (YouTube Video)
• Field Quality Adjustment After Initial Design, Chapter 6 (YouTube Video)
• Field Errors and Their Estimates in Modern Superconducting Magnets, Chapter 7 (YouTube Video)

2006 US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) on “Superconducting Accelerator Magnets” held at the Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona during January 16-27, 2006 (Participants)

• Lectures given by Ramesh Gupta (please see chapters 3-6 above and the rest below – no YouTube Videos):
  • Introduction to Superconducting Magnets, Chapter 1
  • Superconductivity, Chapter 2
  • Field Quality as a Tool to Monitor Magnet Production, Chapter 8
  • HTS Magnet Designs and Technology (YouTube Video on HTS Magnets), Chapter 9
  • Alternate Designs for Special Magnets, Chapter 10
  • High Field Magnet Designs and Technology, Chapter 11
• Lectures given by Animesh Jain

2003 US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) on “Superconducting Accelerator Magnets” at the University of California at Santa Barbara, CA, (June 2003).

• Lectures given by Ramesh Gupta
• Lectures given by Animesh Jain

Winter 2001 US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) on “Superconducting Accelerator Magnets” at the Rice University, Houston, Texas, (January 2001).

• Ramesh Gupta – Introduction, Magnetic Design and Analysis
• Animesh Jain – Magnet Theory and Magnetic Measurements
• Carl Goodzeit – Magnet Engineering (pdf)

Summer 2000 US Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) on “Superconductivity, Magnets and Cavities” at State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY (June 2000).

• Peter Schmuser – Primary Instructor
• Ramesh Gupta – Alternate High Field Magnet Designs for Future Accelerators
• Ramesh Gupta – Field Quality as a Tool to Monitor Magnet Production

School on “Superconductivity and Cryogenics in Accelerators and Tokomaks”, Center for Advanced Technology (CAT), Indore, India (1998)

• Ramesh Gupta – Field Calculations and Computations

Thesis on Improving the Design and Analysis of Superconducting Magnets for Particle Accelerators