ARCHSIM: a proton-synchrotron tracking program, including longitudinal space charge
A particle-tracking program has been written for simulating the acceleration cycle of a rapid-cycling proton synchrotron. A lattice can consist of up to 100 cells and rf cavities. Transport of the beam in six dimensions includes all second-order optical terms. The rf field and proton velocity are treated exactly. Longitudinal space charge is handled in a self-consistent manner. The fluctuations due to the finite number of particles are handled by a Gaussian smoothing algorithm. The program runs on a VAX 11/780 and can track 100 particles without space charge through the full acceleration cycle from 0.8 to 32 GeV in 49 minutes. A thousand particles with space charge takes about ten hours of computer time.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5753853
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-83-2703; CONF-8309144-4; ON: DE84001335
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 215; Conference: EPS conference on computing in accelerator design and operation, Berlin, F.R. Germany, 20 Sep 1983; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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