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Archsim: A proton synchrotron tracking program including longitudinal space charge

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A particle-tracking program has been written for simulating the acceleration cycle of a rapid-cycling proton synchrotron. A lattice can consist of up to 100 cells and rf cavities. Transport of the beam in six dimensions includes all second order optical terms. The rf field and proton velocity are treated exactly. Longitudinal space charge is handled in a self-consistent manner. The fluctuations due to the finite number of particles are handled by a Gaussian smoothing algorithm. The program runs on a VAX 11/780 and can track 100 particles without space charge through the full acceleration cycle from 0.8 to 32 GeV in 49 minutes. A thousand particles with space charge takes about ten hours of computer time.

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  1. Los Alamos National Laboratory, 87545, Los Alamos, NM, USA

    Henry A. Thiessen & John L. Warren

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Winfried Busse Roman Zelazny

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Thiessen, H.A., Warren, J.L. (1984). Archsim: A proton synchrotron tracking program including longitudinal space charge. In: Busse, W., Zelazny, R. (eds) Computing in Accelerator Design and Operation. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 215. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540139095_116

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