Accelerator physics codes

A charged particle accelerator is a complex machine that takes elementary charged particles and accelerates them to very high energies. Accelerator physics is a field of physics encompassing all the aspects required to design and operate the equipment and to understand the resulting dynamics of the charged particles. There are software packages associated with each such domain. A broader index of existing and historical accelerator simulation codes is located at [1]

Single particle dynamics codes

For many applications it is sufficient to track a single particle through the relevant electric and magnetic fields. Some such codes include:

Spin Tracking codes

Some the above codes also perform tracking of spin (e.g. Zgoubi).

Collective effects codes

The interactions between the particles in the beam can have important effects on the behavior, control and dynamics. In some cases, the physical quantities may be found out of a single particle dynamics code. In others, a multiparticle code itself may be built that has both the single particle tracking through the electromagnetic fields from the machine and also the interaction with the rest of the beam.

Space charge codes

The self interaction (e.g. space charge) of the charged particle beam can cause growth of the beam, such as with bunch lengthening or intrabeam scattering, or it may cause an instability and associated beam loss. Typically the Poisson equation is solved at intervals during the tracking using Particle-in-cell algorithms. Many scientists have written special purpose codes to compute these growth values and instability thresholds. Codes include

Impedance computation codes

An important class of collective effects may be summarized in terms of the beams response to an "impedance". An important job is thus the computation of this impedance for the machine. Codes for this computation include

Magnet and other hardware-modeling codes

To control the charged particle beam, appropriate electric and magnetic fields must be created. There are software packages to help in the design and understanding of the magnets, RF cavities, and other elements that create these fields. Codes include

Lattice file format and data interchange issues

Given the variety of modelling tasks, there is not one common data format that has developed. For describing the layout of an accelerator and the corresponding elements, one uses a so-called "lattice file". There have been numerous attempts at unifying the lattice file formats used in different codes. One unification attempt is the Accelerator Markup Language, and the Universal Accelerator Parser.[32] Another attempt at a unified approach to accelerator codes is the UAL or Universal Accelerator Library.[33]

The file formats used in MAD may be the most common, with translation routines available to convert to an input form needed for a different code. Associated with the Elegant code is a data format called SDDS, with an associated suite of tools. If one uses a Matlab-based code, such as Accelerator Toolbox, one has available all the tools within Matlab.

Codes in applications of particle accelerators

There are many applications of particle accelerators. For example, two important applications are elementary particle physics and synchrotron radiation production. When performing a modeling task for any accelerator operation, the results of charged particle beam dynamics simulations must feed into the associated application. Thus, for a full simulation, one must include the codes in associated applications. For particle physics, the simulation may be continued in a detector with a code such as Geant4.

For a synchrotron radiation facility, for example, the electron beam produces an x-ray beam that then travels down a beamline before reaching the experiment. Thus, the electron beam modeling software must interface with the x-ray optics modelling software such as SRW,[34] Shadow,[35] McXTrace,[36] or Spectra.[37] Bmad,[3] is an exception since it can model both X-rays and charged particle beams. The x-rays are used in an experiment which may be modeled and analyzed with various software, such as the DAWN science platform.[38]

See also

References

  1. ↑ the CERN CARE/HHH website
  2. ↑ MAD/MAD-X homepage at cern.ch
  3. 1 2 Bmad home page at cornell.edu
  4. ↑ SAD home page at kek.jp
  5. ↑ user's guide
  6. ↑ ELEGANT,a Flexible SDDS Compliant Code for Accelerator Simulation software
  7. ↑ Zgoubi home page at sourceforge.net
  8. ↑ ATcollab website
  9. ↑ OPA website
  10. ↑ SAMM, another Matlab based tracking code, at liv.ac.uk
  11. ↑ libtracy at sourceforge.net
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ TRANFT user's manual, BNL--77074-2006-IR http://www.osti.gov/scitech/biblio/896444
  14. ↑ THE MULTIPARTICLE TRACKING CODES SBTRACK AND MBTRACK. R. Nagaoka, PAC '09 paper here
  15. ↑ ORBIT home page at ornl.gov
  16. ↑ PyORBIT repository
  17. ↑ Synergia home page at fnal.gov
  18. ↑ IMPACT homepage at Berkeley Lab
  19. ↑ GPT, General Particle Tracer, at pulsar.nl
  20. ↑ VSim at Tech-X
  21. ↑ TraceWin at CEA Saclay
  22. ↑ ABCI home page at kek.jp
  23. 1 2 ACE3P at slac.stanford.gov
  24. ↑ CST, Computer Simulation Technology at cst.com
  25. ↑ GdfidL, Gitter drueber, fertig ist die Laube at gdfidl.de
  26. ↑ T. Weiland, DESY
  27. ↑ VSim at Tech-X
  28. ↑ COMSOL home page at comsol.com
  29. ↑ CST Electromagnetic Studio at cst.com
  30. ↑ OPERA at magnet-design-software.com
  31. ↑ VSim at Tech-X
  32. ↑ Description of AML and UAP at cornell.edu
  33. ↑ See references by N. Malitsky and Talman such as this manual from 2002.
  34. ↑ SRW home page at esrf.eu
  35. ↑ Shadow home page at esrf.eu
  36. ↑ McXTrace home page at mcxtrace.org
  37. ↑ Spectra home page at riken.go.jp
  38. ↑ DAWN science platform website
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