IPAC2014 - List of Authors (Deacon, L.C.)

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MOPRO045	Beam Delivery Simulation: BDSIM - Development & Optimisation	182
	L.J. Nevay, S.T. Boogert, H. Garcia, S.M. Gibson, R. Kwee-Hinzmann, J. Snuverink JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom L.C. Deacon UCL, London, United Kingdom
	Funding: Research supported by FP7 HiLumi LHC - grant agreement 284404. Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a Geant4 and C++ based particle tracking code that seamlessly tracks particles through accelerators and detectors, including the full range of particle interaction physics processes from Geant4. BDSIM has been successfully used to model beam loss and background conditions for many current and future linear accelerators such as the Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) and the International Linear Collider (ILC). Current developments extend its application for use with storage rings, in particular for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the High Luminosity upgrade project (HL-LHC). This paper presents the latest results from using BDSIM to model the LHC as well as the developments underway to improve performance.
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TUPME079	A Spectrometer for Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerated Electrons at AWAKE	1540
	S. Jolly, L.C. Deacon, J.A. Goodhand, S.R. Mandry, M. Wing UCL, London, United Kingdom S.R. Mandry MPI, Muenchen, Germany
	The AWAKE experiment is to be constructed at the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso facility (CNGS). This will be the first experiment to demonstrate electron acceleration by use of a proton driven plasma wakefield. The 400 GeV proton beam from the CERN SPS will excite a wakefield in a plasma cell several metres in length. To observe the plasma wakefield, electrons of a few MeV will be injected into the wakefield following the head of the proton beam. Simulations indicate that electrons will be accelerated to GeV energies by the plasma wakefield. The AWAKE spectrometer is intended to measure both the peak energy and energy spread of these accelerated electrons. The baseline design makes use of a single dipole magnet to separate the electrons from the proton beam. The dispersed electron beam then impacts on a scintillator screen: the resulting scintillation light is collected and recorded by an intensified CCD camera. The design of the spectrometer is detailed with a focus on the scintillator screen. Results of simulations to optimise the scintillator are presented, including studies of the standard GadOx scintillators commonly used for imaging electrons in plasma wakefield experiments.
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Beam Delivery Simulation: BDSIM - Development & Optimisation

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L.J. Nevay, S.T. Boogert, H. Garcia, S.M. Gibson, R. Kwee-Hinzmann, J. Snuverink
JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
L.C. Deacon
UCL, London, United Kingdom

Funding: Research supported by FP7 HiLumi LHC - grant agreement 284404.
Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a Geant4 and C++ based particle tracking code that seamlessly tracks particles through accelerators and detectors, including the full range of particle interaction physics processes from Geant4. BDSIM has been successfully used to model beam loss and background conditions for many current and future linear accelerators such as the Accelerator Test Facility 2 (ATF2) and the International Linear Collider (ILC). Current developments extend its application for use with storage rings, in particular for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the High Luminosity upgrade project (HL-LHC). This paper presents the latest results from using BDSIM to model the LHC as well as the developments underway to improve performance.

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TUPME079

A Spectrometer for Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerated Electrons at AWAKE

1540

S. Jolly, L.C. Deacon, J.A. Goodhand, S.R. Mandry, M. Wing
UCL, London, United Kingdom
S.R. Mandry
MPI, Muenchen, Germany

The AWAKE experiment is to be constructed at the CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso facility (CNGS). This will be the first experiment to demonstrate electron acceleration by use of a proton driven plasma wakefield. The 400 GeV proton beam from the CERN SPS will excite a wakefield in a plasma cell several metres in length. To observe the plasma wakefield, electrons of a few MeV will be injected into the wakefield following the head of the proton beam. Simulations indicate that electrons will be accelerated to GeV energies by the plasma wakefield. The AWAKE spectrometer is intended to measure both the peak energy and energy spread of these accelerated electrons. The baseline design makes use of a single dipole magnet to separate the electrons from the proton beam. The dispersed electron beam then impacts on a scintillator screen: the resulting scintillation light is collected and recorded by an intensified CCD camera. The design of the spectrometer is detailed with a focus on the scintillator screen. Results of simulations to optimise the scintillator are presented, including studies of the standard GadOx scintillators commonly used for imaging electrons in plasma wakefield experiments.

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