UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
LAL, Orsay, France
MERLIN is an high performance accelerator simulation code which is used for modelling the collimation system at the LHC. It is written in extensible object-oriented C++ so new physics processes can be easily added. In this article we present recent developments needed for the Hi-Lumi LHC and future high energy colliders including FCC, such as hollow electron lenses and composite materials. We also give an overview of recent simulation work, validation against LHC data from run 1 and 2, and loss maps for Hi-Lumi LHC.
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
The CBETA project[*] is a prototype electron accelerator for the proposed eRHIC project[**]. The electron accelerator is based on the Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) and the Fixed Field Alternating Gradient (FFAG) principles. The FFAG arcs and the straight section of the accelerator are comprised of one focusing and one defocusing quadrupoles which are designed as Halbach-type permanent dipole magnets with quadrupoles component[***]. We will present the beam optics of the FFAG cell which is based on 3D field maps derived with the use of the OPERA computer code[****]. We will also present the electromagnetic design of the corrector magnets of the cell.
* http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00588
** http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1409/1409.1633.pdf
*** K. Halbach, Nucl. Instrum. Meth. 169 (1980) pp. 1-10
**** http://www.scientificcomputing.com
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Cornell-BNL Electron Test Accelerator CBETA is based on a 36 MeV superconducting linac and on a single 4-pass up/4-pass down linear FFAG return loop, for beam acceleration from 6 to 150 MeV and energy recovery. Numerical beam dynamics simulations have accompanied and eventually validated the quadrupole-doublet FFAG cell technology and parameters, and following that the complete return loop, all along the ERL lattice design process. They are key to assessing and validating the ERL optics and beam behavior over the whole acceleration/ER cycle, and in preparing future machine operation. This paper presents various of these beam dynamics studies, including start-to-end simulations.
LAL, Orsay, France
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
High performance collimation systems are required for current and proposed high energy hadron accelerators in order to protect superconducting magnets and experiments. In order to ensure that the collimation system designs are sufficient and will operate as expected, precision simulation tools are required. This paper discusses the current status of existing collimation system tools, and performs a comparison between codes in order to ensure that the simulated interaction physics between a proton and a collimator jaw is accurate.
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
Cornell University (CLASSE), Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-Based Sciences and Education, Ithaca, New York, USA
BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
The Cornell-BNL Electron Test Accelerator CBETA is a 4 pass up, 4 pass down energy recovery linac using Fixed-Field Alternating-Gradient (FFAG) recirculation arcs with a top energy of 150 MeV. We present lattice implemented in the tracking code pyZgoubi, with both hard edge and field map magnet versions. We also describe the recent developments in pyZgoubi such as importing lattice tables from other tracking codes.