Miniaturizing the large hadron collider with optimized radio frequency accelerators

• Main Author: Muhammad Amirul Hakim Azmi
• Other Authors: Wong Liang Jie
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/158200
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

High energy particle accelerators in the world – like the LHC – are enormous, expensive facilities that have been responsible for some of the most prominent scientific breakthroughs in the history of mankind. The high demand for these facilities has motivated the holy grail of miniaturizing these particle acceleration facilities, to realize compact, affordable, high-quality particle accelerators that can be made available on a widespread basis. In this project, the student will study the acceleration of charged particles by electromagnetic fields and design an RF linear particle accelerator for charged particle acceleration with the ultimate objective of designing a structure capable of accelerating an electron to relativistic speeds within 1 meter of physical space. Such research will pave the way to high quality, compact sources of high energy particles, and has potential applications in X-ray generation for medical imaging, security scanning, and industrial inspection.