THAP5
LBNL, Berkeley, California, USA
Computer modeling of beams and accelerators has had a profound impact on the design and operations of modern particle accelerators, and its importance is growing with the development of more powerful computers and codes. The development and application of such codes have become extremely complex and specialized endeavors, and the complexity is about to reach new heights with the rise of heterogeneous many-core hardware. The breadth and depth of computational accelerator science and technology are both widening (trend toward multi-physics models with realistic geometry at full scale) and deepening (more sophisticated software on more complex architecture), calling for the development of teams of specialists including computational physicists, applied mathematicians and computer scientists. The importance and complexity of computer modeling of accelerators will be highlighted by examples of simulations of laser plasma accelerator stages, including recent advances in the application of the Lorentz boosted frame technique*.
* J.-L. Vay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 130405 (2007)
