Author: Deacon, L.C.
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WEPOY046 Beam Delivery Simulation: BDSIM - Automatic Geant4 Models of Accelerators 3098
 
  • L.J. Nevay, S.T. Boogert, L.C. Deacon, S.M. Gibson, R. Kwee-Hinzmann, W. Shields, J. Snuverink
    JAI, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom
  • H. Garcia
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
 
  Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a program that uses a suite of high energy physics software including Geant4, CLHEP & ROOT, that seamlessly tracks particles through accelerators and detectors utilising the full range of particles and physics processes from Geant4. BDSIM has been used to simulate linear colliders such as the International Linear Collider (ILC) and more recently, circular colliders such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The latest developments including improved geometry modelling; external geometry support; process biasing; and a new event display are presented. A significantly revised and improved accompanying tool chain is presented comprising of a series of Python utilities that allow efficient and automatic preparation of models. Furthermore, a library for both ROOT and Python that provides powerful analysis and event viewing after simulation is demonstrated.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-WEPOY046  
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WEPMY024 A Spectrometer for Proton Driven Plasma Accelerated Electrons at AWAKE - Recent Developments 2605
 
  • L.C. Deacon, S. Jolly, F. Keeble, M. Wing
    UCL, London, United Kingdom
  • B. Biskup, A. Goldblatt, S. Mazzoni, A.V. Petrenko
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • B. Biskup
    Czech Technical University, Prague 6, Czech Republic
  • M. Wing
    DESY, Hamburg, Germany
  • M. Wing
    University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 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 proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. The 400 GeV proton beam from the CERN SPS will excite a wakefield in a plasma cell several meters in length. To probe the plasma wakefield, electrons of 10–20 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. Results of beam tests of the scintillator screen output are presented, along with tests of the resolution of the proposed optical system. The results are used together with a BDSIM simulation of the spectrometer system to predict the spectrometer performance for a range of possible accelerated electron distributions.  
DOI • reference for this paper ※ DOI:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2016-WEPMY024  
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