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TY - CONF AU - Trad, G. AU - Bravin, E. AU - Goldblatt, A. AU - Mazzoni, S. AU - Roncarolo, F. ED - Petit-Jean-Genaz, Christine ED - Arduini, Gianluigi ED - Michel, Peter ED - Schaa, Volker RW TI - A Novel Approach to Synchrotron Radiation Simulation J2 - Proc. of IPAC2014, Dresden, Germany, June 15-20, 2014 C1 - Dresden, Germany T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 5 LA - english AB - At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, synchrotron radiation (SR) is used to continuously monitor the transverse properties of the beams. Unfortunately the machine and beam parameters are such that the useful radiation emitted inside a separation dipole, chosen as source, is diffraction limited affecting heavily the accuracy of the measurement. In order to deconvolve the diffraction effects from the acquired beam images and in order to design an alternative monitor based on a double slit interferometer an extensive study of the synchrotron light source and of the optical propagation has been made. This study is based on simulations combining together several existing tools: SRW for the source, ZEMAX for the transport and MATLAB for the "glue" and analysis of the results. The resulting tool is very powerful and can be easily adapted to other synchrotron radiation problems. In this paper the simulation package and the way it is used will be described as well as the results obtained for the LHC and SPS cases. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 3687 EP - 3689 KW - simulation KW - injection KW - detector KW - radiation KW - synchrotron DA - 2014/07 PY - 2014 SN - 978-3-95450-132-8 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2014-THPME177 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2014/papers/thpme177.pdf ER -