Recent results and future challenges for large scale Particle-In-Cell simulations of plasma-based accelerator concepts

Conference · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

OSTI ID:965790

Huang, C; An, W; Decyk, V K; Lu, W; Mori, W B; Tsung, F S; Tzoufras, M; Morshed, S; Antomsen, T; Feng, B; Katsouleas, T; Fonseca, R A; Martins, S F; Vieira, J; Silva, L O; Geddes, C G.R.; Cormier-Michel, E; Vay, J -L; Esarey, E; Leemans, W P ; Bruhwiler, D L; Cowan, B; Cary, J R; Paul, K

The concept and designs of plasma-based advanced accelerators for high energy physics and photon science are modeled in the SciDAC COMPASS project with a suite of Particle-In-Cell codes and simulation techniques including the full electromagnetic model, the envelope model, the boosted frame approach and the quasi-static model. In this paper, we report the progress of the development of these models and techniques and present recent results achieved with large-scale parallel PIC simulations. The simulation needs for modeling the plasma-based advanced accelerator at the energy frontier is discussed and a path towards this goal is outlined.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Accelerator& Fusion Research Division
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 965790
• Report Number(s): LBNL-2202E; TRN: US0903884
• Resource Relation: Conference: SciDak2009, SAN DEIGO, CA, JUNE 13-18, 2009
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCELERATORS
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