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Bunches with high peak currents of the order of kilo-Amperes are required in linac based X-ray free electron lasers. These bunches cannot be produced directly in guns because space charge forces would destroy the brilliance within a short distance. Therefore bunches with a peak current of a few tens of Amperes are created in laser-driven radio-frequency sources and are compressed in length by two orders of magnitude. In most designs, the compression is achieved in magnet chicanes, where particles with different energies have different path lengths so that a bunch with an energy distribution correlated with longitudinal particle position can shrink in length. The principle problem is that short bunches on curved trajectories will emit coherent synchrotron radiation (CSR). The CSR effects and the space charge fields play an important role in the particle dynamic and the design of a bunch compression system. This presentation will provide an overview of computational methods and simulation tools for space charge and coherent synchrotron radiation effects in magnetic bunch compression systems.
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