Comparison of tracking codes for the International Linear Collider

Author

Smith, Jeffrey C. ; Latina, Andrea ; Schulte, Daniel ; Poirier, Freddy ; Walker, Nicholas ; Lebrun, Paul ; Ranjan, Kirti ; Kubo, Kiyoshi ; Tenenbaum, Peter ; Eliasson, Peder

Author_Institution

Cornell Univ., Ithaca

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

3020

Lastpage

3022

Abstract

In an effort to compare beam dynamics and create a "benchmark" for Dispersion Free Steering (DFS) a comparison was made between different International Linear Collider (ILC) simulation programs while performing DFS. This study consisted of three parts. Firstly, a simple betatron oscillation was tracked through each code. Secondly, a set of component misalignments and corrector settings generated from one program was read into the others to confirm similar emittance dilution. Thirdly, given the same set of component misalignments, DFS was performed independently in each program and the resulting emittance dilution was compared. Performance was found to agree exceptionally well in all three studies.

Keywords

electron accelerators; linear colliders; particle beam dynamics; physics computing; DFS; ILC simulation programs; International Linear Collider; beam dynamics; betatron oscillation; dispersion free steering; emittance dilution; tracking codes; Colliding beam devices; Contracts; Extraterrestrial measurements; Lattices; Linear particle accelerator; Optical losses; Orbital calculations; Particle tracking; Table lookup; US Department of Energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4440654

Filename

4440654