Synergia: An Advanced Object-Oriented Framework for Beam Dynamics Simulation

Synergia is a 3-D, parallel, particle-in-cell beam dynamics simulation toolkit. At the heart of the software development effort is the integration of two extant object-oriented accelerator modeling libraries— IMPACT written in Fortran 90 and mxyzptlk written in C++--so that they be steered by a third, more flexible human interface framework, written in Python. Recent efforts are focused on the refactoring of the IMPAT-Fortran 90 codes in order to expose more loosely coupled interfaces to the Python interface framework.