Author: Schmidt, F.
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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.
 
 
TUPME034 Experimental Studies for Future LHC Beams in the SPS 1652
 
  • H. Bartosik, T. Argyropoulos, T. Bohl, S. Cettour-Cave, J.F. Esteban Müller, W. Höfle, G. Iadarola, Y. Papaphilippou, G. Rumolo, B. Salvant, F. Schmidt, E.N. Shaposhnikova, H. Timko
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • A.Y. Molodozhentsev
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  The High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project requires significantly higher beam intensity than presently accessible in the LHC injector chain. The aim of the LHC injectors upgrade project (LIU) is to prepare the CERN accelerators for the future needs of the LHC. Therefore a series of machine studies with high brightness beams were performed, assessing the present performance reach and identifying remaining limitations. Of particular concern are beam loading and longitudinal instabilities at high energy, space charge for beams with 50ns bunch spacing and electron cloud effects for beams with 25ns bunch spacing. This paper provides a summary of the performed studies, that have been possible thanks to the implementation of the SPS low gamma-transition optics.  
 
WEPEA052 Investigations on CERN PSB Beam Dynamics with Strong Direct Space Charge Effects Using the PTC-ORBIT Code 2621
 
  • V. Forte, E. Benedetto, C. Carli, M. Martini, B. Mikulec, E. Métral, F. Schmidt
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • A.Y. Molodozhentsev
    KEK, Ibaraki, Japan
 
  The CERN PS Booster (PSB) is the first synchrotron of the LHC injector chain consisting out of four superposed rings and providing beam for many users. As part of the LIU project, the machine will be upgraded. Space charge and resonances are serious issues for the good quality of the beam at injection energy. Consequently simulations are needed to track the beam in the machine taking into account space charge effects: PTC-ORBIT has been used as tracking code. This paper presents simulations results compared with the measurements for machine performances evaluation and code-benchmarking purposes.  
 
WEPEA070 Space Charge Effects and Limitations in the Cern Proton Synchrotron 2669
 
  • R. Wasef, G. Arduini, H. Damerau, S.S. Gilardoni, S. Hancock, C. Hernalsteens, A. Huschauer, F. Schmidt
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • G. Franchetti
    GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
 
  Space charge produces a large incoherent tune-spread which, in presence of betatronic resonances, could lead to beam losses and emittance growth. In the CERN Proton Synchrotron, at the current injection kinetic energy (1.4 GeV) and even at the future kinetic energy (2 GeV), space charge is one of the main limitations for high brightness beams and especially for the future High-Luminosity LHC beams. Several detailed studies and measurements have been carried out to improve the understanding of space charge limitations to determine the maximum acceptable tune spread and identify the most important resonances causing losses and emittance growth.