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TY - CONF AU - Cee, R. AU - Galonska, M. AU - Gläßle, T. AU - Haberer, Th. AU - Höppner, K. AU - Peters, A. AU - Scheloske, S. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - A MAD-X Model of the HIT Accelerator J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - For a medical accelerator facility like the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Centre (HIT) an online simulation tool with read and write access to the control system and the database is essential for effective beam alignment and beam spot size adjustment at the patient position. Since the commissioning of HIT the simulation programme Mirko from GSI Darmstadt has been in use for the simulation of the beamlines and the synchrotron. While Mirko fully complies with the demands and is still in regular use, the long-term support of the HIT-Mirko derivate cannot be guaranteed. We have therefore started to set up a new simulation environment based on the MAD-X programme from CERN. In a first step we built a MAD-X model of the HIT accelerator using the MAD-X export function of Mirko. The resulting sequences were transformed and extended into executable MAD-X files. The simulation results were validated against Mirko and a good agreement of the calculated beam envelopes could be achieved. Works on the graphical user interface (GUI) for visualisation of and interaction with the beam envelopes and the link to the control system are in progress. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 397 EP - 399 KW - simulation KW - ion KW - synchrotron KW - dipole KW - controls DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-MOPME010 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/mopme010.pdf ER -