| Article | |
| Title | The Tracking Code RF-Track and Its Application |
| Author(s) | Latina, Andrea (CERN) |
| Publication | 2024 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| In: | JACoW HB 2023 (2024) 245-248 |
| In: | 68th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics workshop on high-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (HB 2023), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 - 13 Oct 2023, pp.245-248 |
| DOI | 10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-WEA3C1 |
| Subject category | Accelerators and Storage Rings |
| Abstract | RF-Track is a CERN-developed particle tracking code that can simulate the generation, acceleration, and tracking of beams of any species through an entire accelerator, both in realistic field maps and conventional elements. RF-Track includes a large set of single-particle and collective effects: space-charge, beam-beam, beam loading in standing and travelling wave structures, short- and long-range wakefield effects, synchrotron radiation emission, multiple Coulomb scattering in materials, and particle lifetime. These effects make it the ideal tool for the simulation of high-intensity machines. RF-Track has been used for the simulation of electron linacs for medical applications, inverse-Compton-scattering sources, positron sources, protons in Linac4, and the cooling channel of a future muon collider. An overview of the code is presented, along with some significant results. |
| Copyright/License | © 2024 the author(s) (License: CC-BY-3.0) |
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