Computational Accelerator Physics 2003

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Accelerator Physics, Michigan, USA, 15-18 October 2003

M Berz, K Makino

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2005
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040213568
• Subtopic: Physics
• Index: Physics

This volume provides an overview of the state of the art in computational accelerator physics, based on papers presented at the seventh international conference at Michigan State University in October 2002. The major topics covered in this volume include particle tracking and ray tracing, transfer map methods, field computation for time dependent M

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Contents
• Persistent currents in superconducting filaments due to arbitrary field changes in the transverse plane
• A simple parallelization of a FMM-based serial beam-beam interaction code
• Accuracy analysis of a 2D Poisson-Vlasov PIC solver and estimates of the collisional effects in space charge dynamics
• The COSY language independent architecture: porting COSY source files
• Simulation Issues for RF Photoinjectors
• Enhancements to iterative inexact Lanczos for solving computationally large finite element eigenmode problems
• New numerical methods for solving the time-dependent Maxwell equations
• Beam simulation tools for GEANT4 (and neutrino source applications)
• Muon cooling rings for the ν factory and the μ+μ-collider
• Status of the Los Alamos Accelerator Code Group
• 3D Space-charge model for GPT simulations of high-brightness electron bunches
• S-parameter-based computation in complex accelerator structures: Q-values and field orientation of dipole modes  †
• AHF booster tracking with SIMPSONS
• Parallel simulation algorithms for the three-dimensional strong-strong beam-beam interaction
• A parallel code for lifetime simulations in hadron storage rings in the presence of parasitic beam-beam interactions
• Using macroparticles with internal motion for beam dynamics simulations*
• The software ModeRTL for simulation of radiation processes in electron beam technologies
• Computational aspects of the trajectory reconstruction in the MAGNEX large acceptance spectrometer
• Study of RF coupling to dielectric loaded accelerating structures
• On the map method for electron optics
• Aspects of parallel simulation of high intensity beams in hadron rings
• High-order beam features and fitting quadrupole-scan data to particle-code models †
• Muon beam ring cooler simulations using COSY INFINITY
• Solenoid elements in COSY INFINITY
• Experience during the SLS commissioning
• Tracking particles in axisymmetric MICHELLE models
• Beam dynamics problems of the muon collaboration: v-factories and μ+-μ-colliders
• Simulation of electron cloud multipacting in solenoidal magnetic field*
• RF heating in the PEP-II B-factory vertex bellows
• Optimization of RFQ structures
• A multigrid based 3D space-charge routine in the tracking code GPT
• On the applicability of the thin dielectric layer model for wakefield calculation
• COSY INFINITY’s EXPO symplectic tracking for LHC
• ORBIT: Parallel implementation of beam dynamics calculations
• Vlasov simulation of beams
• Space charge studies and comparison with simulations using the FNAL Booster
• Progress in the study of mesh refinement for particle-in-cell plasma simulations and its application to heavy ion fusion
• Calculation of transversal wake potential for short bunches
• Author Index