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TY - CONF AU - Hall, C.C. AU - Biedron, S. AU - Freund, H. AU - Milton, S.V. ED - Henderson, Stuart ED - Akers, Evelyn ED - Satogata, Todd ED - Schaa, Volker R.W. TI - Start-to-end Simulation of Free-electron Lasers J2 - Proc. of IPAC2015, Richmond, VA, USA, May 3-8, 2015 C1 - Richmond, VA, USA T2 - International Particle Accelerator Conference T3 - 6 LA - english AB - Start-to-end (S2E) modeling of free-electron lasers (FELs) normally requires the use of multiple codes to correctly capture the physics in each region of the machine. Codes such as PARMELA, IMPACT-T or MICHELLE, for instance, may be used to simulate the injector. From there the linac and transport line may be handled by codes such as DIMAD, ELEGANT or IMPACT-Z. Finally, at the FEL a wiggler interaction code such as GENESIS, GINGER, or MINERVA must be used. These codes may be optimized to work with a wide range in magnitude of macro-particle numbers (from 10⁴-10⁸ in different codes) and have different input formats. It is therefore necessary to have translator codes to provide a bridge between each section. It is essential that these translators be able to preserve the statistical properties of the bunch while raising or lowering the number of macro-particles used between codes. In this work we show a suite of such translators designed to facilitate S2E simulations of an FEL with a new wiggler code, MINERVA, and use these codes to provide benchmarking of MINERVA against other common wiggler simulation codes. PB - JACoW CP - Geneva, Switzerland SP - 675 EP - 677 KW - FEL KW - simulation KW - wiggler KW - linac KW - electron DA - 2015/06 PY - 2015 SN - 978-3-95450-168-7 DO - 10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2015-MOPMA054 UR - http://jacow.org/ipac2015/papers/mopma054.pdf ER -