Author: McIntosh, E.
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MOPWO026 Investigation of Numerical Precision Issues of Long Term Single Particle Tracking 942
 
  • E. McIntosh, R. De Maria, M. Giovannozzi
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
Long term single particle simplectic tracking is one of the most reliable tool to study the dynamic aperture of the circular accelerators. The present computational performance allows to explore the long term behaviour for an extended number of turns. It is well known that for instance single precision floating point arithmetic introduces too much numerical noise even after a moderate number of turns. In this paper we explore the artefacts of the double precision arithmetic that may be visible when the number of turns is in the order of 106, 107.
 
 
MOPWO028 Recent Developments and Future Plans for SixTrack 948
 
  • R. De Maria, R. Bruce, R. Calaga, L. Deniau, M. Fjellstrom, M. Giovannozzi, L. Lari, Y.I. Levinsen, E. McIntosh, A. Mereghetti, D. Pastor Sinuela, S. Redaelli, H. Renshall, A. Rossi, F. Schmidt, R. Tomás, V. Vlachoudis
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • R. Appleby, D.R. Brett
    UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • D. Banfi, J. Barranco
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • B. Dalena
    CEA/IRFU, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
  • L. Lari
    IFIC, Valencia, Spain
  • V. Previtali
    Fermilab, Batavia, USA
  • G. Robert-Demolaize
    BNL, Upton, Long Island, New York, USA
 
  Funding: The HiLumi LHC Design Study is included in the HL-LHC project and is partly funded by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404.
SixTrack is a symplectic 6D tracking code routinely used to simulate single particle trajectories in high energy circular machines like the LHC and RHIC. The paper presents the developments recently implemented and those foreseen for extending the physics models: exact Hamiltonian, different ions and charge states, RF multipoles, non-linear fringe fields, Taylor maps, e-lenses, ion scattering. Moreover new functionalities are also added like variable number of tracked particles, time dependent strengths, GPU computations with a refactoring of the core structure. The developments will benefit studies on the LHC and SPS, for collimation efficiency, ion operations, failure scenarios and HL-LHC design.
 
 
TUPFI016 Optimization of Triplet Quadrupoles Field Quality for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy 1364
 
  • Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M.-H. Wang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, E. McIntosh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404; and by the US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
For the high luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC), the beta functions at two interaction points (IP) will be significantly reduced compared to the nominal LHC lattice. This will result in much higher peak beta functions in the inner triplet (IT) quadrupoles adjacent to these IPs. The consequences are a larger beam size in these quadrupoles, higher IT chromaticity, and stronger effects of the IT field errors on dynamic aperture (DA). The IT chromaticity will be compensated using the Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing scheme*. The increased IT beam size will be accommodated by installing large aperture Nb3Sn superconducting quadrupoles with 150 mm coil diameter. The field error tolerances in these magnets must satisfy the required acceptable DA while being reasonably close to realistically achievable field quality. Evaluation of the IT field errors was performed for the LHC upgrade layout version SLHCV3.01 with IT gradient of 123 T/m and IP collision beta functions of 15 cm in both planes. Dynamic aperture calculations were performed using SixTrack. Details of the optimization of the IT field errors are presented along with corrections to achieve the field quality specifications.
* S. Fartoukh, “An Achromatic Telescopic Squeezing (ATS) Scheme for LHC Upgrade’’, in proceedings of IPAC11, p. 2088.
 
 
TUPFI017 Evaluation of Field Quality for Separation Dipoles and Matching Section Quadrupoles for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy 1367
 
  • Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M.-H. Wang
    SLAC, Menlo Park, California, USA
  • R. De Maria, S.D. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, E. McIntosh
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Funding: Work supported by the European Commission within the Framework Programme 7 Capacities Specific Programme, Grant Agreement 284404; and by the US DOE contract DE-AC02-76SF00515.
The high luminosity upgrade of the LHC (HL-LHC) lattice requires new larger aperture magnets to be installed in the low-beta interaction regions (IRs). These include Nb3Sn superconducting (SC) triplet quadrupoles, Nb-Ti SC separation dipoles D1 and D2, and SC Q4 quadrupoles. The upgrade significantly reduces the beta functions at these IRs, producing higher beta functions and larger beam size in these magnets, and requiring a larger aperture. The high beta functions also increase the impact of high order field errors in these new magnets on dynamic aperture (DA). Therefore, to maintain an acceptable DA, new specifications for the magnet field quality are required. Since the IR error effects at collision are dominated by the triplets, their field quality has been studied and specified first*. As a next step, the field errors were added to the D1 and D2 dipoles and Q4 quadrupoles while maintaining the triplet errors to specifications. The impact of the errors on DA has been determined in long term tracking simulations using SixTrack. The optimized field error specifications for the D1, D2 and Q4 magnets are presented.
* Y. Nosochkov, Y. Cai, M-H. Wang, S. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, R. de Maria, E. McIntosh, “Optimization of Triplet Field Quality for the LHC High Luminosity Lattice at Collision Energy”, IPAC 2013.