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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPS110
TitleImplementation of novel acceleration functionality in BDSIM
Authors
  • M. Deniaud, S. Boogert
    Cockcroft Institute
AbstractBeam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM) is a Geant4 based accelerator tracking code which includes interactions of particles with material. BDSIM has become an important code in the accelerator community to simulate beam lines. Since laser and beam driven plasma wakefield acceleration (LWFA/PWFA) is a promising acceleration method we found it important to include related capability in BDSIM. This requires the addition of new beamline elements that are commonly used in plasma acceleration experiments. A gas volume where the LWFA/PWFA takes place and a beam mask to create a separate drive beam and a witness beam. In the former, the beam interacts with gas so ideal gas calculations are required to input the gas properties. Biasing can specifically be applied to the gas material in those elements. Simulating the interactions between the beam and a plasma is not done in BDSIM. An external software is used to compute the fields and the particles data. BDSIM can now read the output HDF5 files to reconstruct the fields inside the gas capillary or use the particle data as a bunch definition for the beginning of a beamline. Some results explaining how to make a LWFA/PWFA simulation are presented.
Paperdownload: TUPS110.pdf
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Conference16th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Series
LocationTaipei, Taiwan
Date01-06 Jun 2025
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial Board* Ming-Chyuan Lin - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * Yoichi Sato - KEK * Jui-Che Huang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center * David Button - Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation * Ping-Shun Chuang - National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Online ISBN978-3-95450-248-6
Online ISSN2673-5490
Received28 May 2025
Revised04 June 2025
Accepted05 June 2025
Issued05 November 2025
DOI10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2025-TUPS110
Pages1601-1603