Paper |
Title |
Page |
WEPP127 |
ALaDyn: a High Accuracy Code for the Laser-plasma Interaction
|
2794 |
|
- C. Benedetti, A. Sgattoni
Bologna University, Bologna
- P. Tomassini
INFN-Milano, Milano
|
|
|
ALaDyn (Acceleration by LAser and DYNamics of charged particles) is a relativistic fully parallelized PIC code to investigate the interaction of a laser pulse with a plasma and/or an externally injected beam. The code is based on compact high order finite differences schemes ensuring higher spectral accuracy compared to standard Yee schemes. We present the main features and the performances of the code together with a set of validation tests obtained comparing the results with well-established analytical/numerical results. A preliminary benchmarking with the PIC code VORPAL is also presented. An application to a physically relevant case concerning the externally-injected configuration proposed for the CNR-INFN experiment PLASMONX will be analyzed.
|
|
THPC086 |
Transverse Mismatch Oscillations of a Bunched Beam in Presence of Space Charge and External Nonlinearities
|
3188 |
|
- C. Benedetti, G. Turchetti
Bologna University, Bologna
- G. Franchetti, I. Hofmann
GSI, Darmstadt
|
|
|
The damping of transverse mismatch oscillations depends on the combined effect of space charge as well as external nonlinearities. Previous studies of this problem for high intensity beams in a synchrotron have not included the combined effect of synchrotron oscillation and external nonlinearities on mismatch. In this paper we explore by 2.5D particle in cell simulations the effect on emittance growth, halo and beam loss caused by space charge, synchrotron oscillation and external nonlinearities. Different tunes are considered in order to understand the importance of external nonlinearities as function of the distance of the working point from the resonance condition.
|
|