IPAC2017 - List of Authors (Molson, J.)

Paper	Title	Page
MOPAB001	Status of the FCC-hh Collimation System	64
	J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe LAL, Orsay, France R. Bruce, M. Fiascaris, A.M. Krainer, S. Redaelli CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Funding: Funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305. The future circular hadron collider (FCC-hh) will have an unprecedented proton beam energy of 50 TeV, and total stored beam energy of 8.4 GJ. We discuss current developments in the collimation system design, and methods with which the challenges faced due to the high energies involved can be mitigated. Finally simulation results of new collimation system designs are presented.
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MOPAB013	Recent Development and Results With the Merlin Tracking Code	104
	S.C. Tygier, R.B. Appleby, H. Rafique UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow, S. Rowan IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom J. Molson LAL, Orsay, France
	Funding: Work supported by High Luminosity LHC : UK (HL-LHC-UK), grant number ST/N001621/1 MERLIN is an high performance accelerator simulation code which is used for modelling the collimation system at the LHC. It is written in extensible object-oriented C++ so new physics processes can be easily added. In this article we present recent developments needed for the Hi-Lumi LHC and future high energy colliders including FCC, such as hollow electron lenses and composite materials. We also give an overview of recent simulation work, validation against LHC data from run 1 and 2, and loss maps for Hi-Lumi LHC.
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WEOBA1	A Comparison of Interaction Physics for Proton Collimation Systems in Current Simulation Tools	2478
	J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe LAL, Orsay, France R.B. Appleby, S.C. Tygier UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom R.J. Barlow IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland H. Rafique University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom Y. Zou IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	Funding: The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study (EuroCirCol) project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305. High performance collimation systems are required for current and proposed high energy hadron accelerators in order to protect superconducting magnets and experiments. In order to ensure that the collimation system designs are sufficient and will operate as expected, precision simulation tools are required. This paper discusses the current status of existing collimation system tools, and performs a comparison between codes in order to ensure that the simulated interaction physics between a proton and a collimator jaw is accurate.
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THPAB046	SixTrack for Cleaning Studies: 2017 Updates	3811
	A. Mereghetti, R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, R. De Maria, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, P.D. Hermes, D. Mirarchi, P.G. Ortega, D. Pastor Sinuela, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis CERN, Geneva, Switzerland J. Molson LAL, Orsay, France Y. Zou IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China
	SixTrack is a single particle tracking code for simulating beam dynamics in ultra-relativistic accelerators. It is widely used at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) for predicting dynamic aperture and cleaning inefficiency in large circular machines like the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The code is under continuous development, to both extend its physics models, and enhance performance. The present work gives an overview of developments, specifically aimed at extending the code capabilities for cleaning studies. They mainly involve: the online aperture check; the possibility to perform simulations coupled to advanced Monte Carlo codes like Fluka or using the scattering event generator of the Merlin code; the generalisation of tracking maps to ion species; the implementation of composite materials of relevance for the future upgrades of the LHC collimators; the physics of interactions with bent crystals. Plans to merge these functionalities into a single version of the SixTrack code will be outlined.
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THPAB047	New Features of the 2017 SixTrack Release	3815
	K.N. Sjobak, J. Barranco García, R. De Maria, E. McIntosh, A. Mereghetti CERN, Geneva, Switzerland M. Fitterer Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA V. Gupta IIT, Guwahati, Assam, India J. Molson LAL, Orsay, France
	The SixTrack particle tracking code is routinely used to simulate particle trajectories in high energy circular machines like the LHC and FCC, and is deployed for massive simulation campaigns on CERN clusters and on the BOINC platform within the LHC@Home volunteering computing project. The 2017 release brings many upgrades that improve flexibility, performance, and accuracy. This paper describes the new modules for wire- and electron lenses (WIRE and ELEN), the expert interface for beam-beam element (BEAM/EXPERT), the extension of the number of simultaneously tracked particles, the new Frequency Map Analysis (FMA) postprocessing option, the generation of a single zip of selected output files (ZIPF) in order to extend the coverage of the studies in LHC@HOME (e.g. FMA and on-line aperture checks), coupling to external codes (DYNK-PIPE and BDEX), a new CMAKE based build- and test mechanism, and internal restructuring.
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Status of the FCC-hh Collimation System

64

J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe
LAL, Orsay, France
R. Bruce, M. Fiascaris, A.M. Krainer, S. Redaelli
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: Funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305.
The future circular hadron collider (FCC-hh) will have an unprecedented proton beam energy of 50 TeV, and total stored beam energy of 8.4 GJ. We discuss current developments in the collimation system design, and methods with which the challenges faced due to the high energies involved can be mitigated. Finally simulation results of new collimation system designs are presented.

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MOPAB013

Recent Development and Results With the Merlin Tracking Code

104

S.C. Tygier, R.B. Appleby, H. Rafique
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow, S. Rowan
IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
J. Molson
LAL, Orsay, France

Funding: Work supported by High Luminosity LHC : UK (HL-LHC-UK), grant number ST/N001621/1
MERLIN is an high performance accelerator simulation code which is used for modelling the collimation system at the LHC. It is written in extensible object-oriented C++ so new physics processes can be easily added. In this article we present recent developments needed for the Hi-Lumi LHC and future high energy colliders including FCC, such as hollow electron lenses and composite materials. We also give an overview of recent simulation work, validation against LHC data from run 1 and 2, and loss maps for Hi-Lumi LHC.

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WEOBA1

A Comparison of Interaction Physics for Proton Collimation Systems in Current Simulation Tools

2478

J. Molson, A. Faus-Golfe
LAL, Orsay, France
R.B. Appleby, S.C. Tygier
UMAN, Manchester, United Kingdom
R.J. Barlow
IIAA, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, A. Ferrari, A. Mereghetti, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
H. Rafique
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Y. Zou
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Funding: The European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider Study (EuroCirCol) project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant No 654305.
High performance collimation systems are required for current and proposed high energy hadron accelerators in order to protect superconducting magnets and experiments. In order to ensure that the collimation system designs are sufficient and will operate as expected, precision simulation tools are required. This paper discusses the current status of existing collimation system tools, and performs a comparison between codes in order to ensure that the simulated interaction physics between a proton and a collimator jaw is accurate.

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THPAB046

SixTrack for Cleaning Studies: 2017 Updates

3811

A. Mereghetti, R. Bruce, F. Cerutti, R. De Maria, A. Ferrari, M. Fiascaris, P.D. Hermes, D. Mirarchi, P.G. Ortega, D. Pastor Sinuela, E. Quaranta, S. Redaelli, K.N. Sjobak, V. Vlachoudis
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
J. Molson
LAL, Orsay, France
Y. Zou
IHEP, Beijing, People's Republic of China

SixTrack is a single particle tracking code for simulating beam dynamics in ultra-relativistic accelerators. It is widely used at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) for predicting dynamic aperture and cleaning inefficiency in large circular machines like the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Future Circular Collider (FCC). The code is under continuous development, to both extend its physics models, and enhance performance. The present work gives an overview of developments, specifically aimed at extending the code capabilities for cleaning studies. They mainly involve: the online aperture check; the possibility to perform simulations coupled to advanced Monte Carlo codes like Fluka or using the scattering event generator of the Merlin code; the generalisation of tracking maps to ion species; the implementation of composite materials of relevance for the future upgrades of the LHC collimators; the physics of interactions with bent crystals. Plans to merge these functionalities into a single version of the SixTrack code will be outlined.

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THPAB047

New Features of the 2017 SixTrack Release

3815

K.N. Sjobak, J. Barranco García, R. De Maria, E. McIntosh, A. Mereghetti
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Fitterer
Fermilab, Batavia, Illinois, USA
V. Gupta
IIT, Guwahati, Assam, India
J. Molson
LAL, Orsay, France

The SixTrack particle tracking code is routinely used to simulate particle trajectories in high energy circular machines like the LHC and FCC, and is deployed for massive simulation campaigns on CERN clusters and on the BOINC platform within the LHC@Home volunteering computing project. The 2017 release brings many upgrades that improve flexibility, performance, and accuracy. This paper describes the new modules for wire- and electron lenses (WIRE and ELEN), the expert interface for beam-beam element (BEAM/EXPERT), the extension of the number of simultaneously tracked particles, the new Frequency Map Analysis (FMA) postprocessing option, the generation of a single zip of selected output files (ZIPF) in order to extend the coverage of the studies in LHC@HOME (e.g. FMA and on-line aperture checks), coupling to external codes (DYNK-PIPE and BDEX), a new CMAKE based build- and test mechanism, and internal restructuring.

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