Particle tracking in the ILC extraction lines with DIMAD and BDSIM

The study of beam transport is of central importance to the design and performance assessment of modern particle accelerators. In this paper, we benchmark two contemporary codes, DIMAD and BDSIM, the latter being a relatively new tracking code built within the framework of GEANT4. We consider both t...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2006-07
Main Authors: Appleby, R, Bambade, P, Dadoun, O, Ferrari, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Building codes
Electron beams
Particle accelerators
Particle beams
Particle tracking
Performance assessment
Superconducting supercolliders
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Summary:The study of beam transport is of central importance to the design and performance assessment of modern particle accelerators. In this paper, we benchmark two contemporary codes, DIMAD and BDSIM, the latter being a relatively new tracking code built within the framework of GEANT4. We consider both the 20 mrad and 2 mrad extraction lines of the 500 GeV International Linear Collider (ILC) and we perform particle tracking studies of heavily disrupted post-collision electron beams. We find that the two codes give an almost equivalent description of the beam transport.
ISSN:2331-8422