Advances in simulation capability: A path towards modeling 10-100 GeV plasma accelerator stages
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (United States)
A path towards modeling 10-100 GeV plasma accelerator stages is described. Modeling such stages including the self-consistent evolution of the driver, the plasma dynamics, and the beam loading of the trailing particles necessitates the use of particle methods. In a previous proceedings, I reviewed the status of particle based methods and stated that new methods needed to be developed if one hoped to routinely model the full scale in three-dimensions of 10+ GeV plasma accelerator stages. In this article, I describe the development of a new fully parallelized algorithm that reproduces the results from standard particle-in-cell methods with at least a 100 times savings in CPU time. I also describe how standard methods are being used to discover new physics.
- OSTI ID:
- 20655282
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 737, Issue 1; Conference: 11. advanced accelerator concepts workshop, Stony Brook, NY (United States), 21-26 Jun 2004; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1842535; (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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