An interactive version of the PBGUNS program for the simulation of axisymmetric and 2-D, electron and ion beams and guns

Author

Boers, Jack E.

Author_Institution

Thunderbird Simulations, Garland, TX, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1995

fDate

1-5 May 1995

Firstpage

2312

Abstract

PBGUNS, a program for the simulation of ion and electron beam extraction systems has been modified to permit their interactive design on an IBM-PC. The program can be interrupted after any relaxation cycle and its electrode configuration, and most other parameters, modified. A graphical interface is used in the modification of the electrodes on the screen without exiting the program or having to save (or restore) binary data. The program uses previous results to speed convergence of the new configuration and is quite tolerant of significant changes in electrodes and/or potentials. It is written in FORTRAN 77 (with DOS extenders) and can be run on any high end PC with at least 16 MBytes of memory

Keywords

FORTRAN listings; electron beams; electron guns; electron sources; graphical user interfaces; high energy physics instrumentation computing; ion beams; ion sources; microcomputer applications; particle beam extraction; particle sources; 2D beams; DOS extenders; FORTRAN 77; IBM-PC; PBGUNS program; axisymmetric beams; electron beams; electron guns; extraction systems; graphical user interface; high end PC; interactive design; interactive version; ion beams; ion guns; simulation; Cathodes; Computational modeling; Electrodes; Electron beams; Plasma devices; Plasma simulation; Shape; Space charge; Switches; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1995., Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2934-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1995.505535

Filename

505535