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TY - CPAPER AU - Dickerson, C. AU - Mustapha, B. AU - Peters, C.E. TI - Integrating the TRACK Beam Simulation Code to Improve ATLAS Operations J2 - Proc. of Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology Conference (HIAT2015), Yokohama, Japan, 7-11 September 2015 AB - At the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) we are integrating TRACK, three dimensional particle tracking software that numerically integrates the equations of motion, into the accelerator control system. ATLAS delivers a variety of ions (1 ' 238 AMU) at various energies (1 ' 15 MeV/u) to multiple targets. By comparing simulated and observed performance, model driven operations will improve the understanding of the facility, reduce tune times, and improve the beam quality for these diverse operating conditions. This paper will describe the work to interface TRACK with the real-time accelerator control system, and the results of simulations used to characterize and configure the accelerator. PB - JACoW CY - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 169 EP - 171 KW - controls KW - simulation KW - operation KW - software KW - target DA - 2016/02 PY - 2016 SN - 978-3-95450-131-1 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-HIAT2015-WEM1C02 UR - http://accelconf.web.cern.ch/AccelConf/HIAT2015/papers/wem1c02.pdf ER -