Simulation of the Fermilab Booster using Synergia

Abstract

High precision modeling of space-charge effects is essential for designing future accelerators as well as optimizing the performance of existing machines. Synergia is a highfidelity parallel beam dynamics simulation package with fully three dimensional space-charge capabilities and a higher-order optics implementation. We describe the Synergia framework, developed under the auspices of the DOE SciDAC program, and present Synergia simulations of the Fermilab Booster accelerator and comparisons with experiment. Our studies include investigation of coherent and incoherent tune shifts and halo formation.

Two-tiered component design and performance analysis of Synergia2 accelerator simulations

“…The accelerator application on which we focus, Synergia2 [6,26], fits the paradigm of a large software engineering endeavor that incorporates a number of programming languages and must be usable on LCFs. Such accelerator simulations are of broad importance in basic research and also have provided advances in material science, chemistry, the biosciences and other fields [24].…”

A beam dynamics application based on the Common Component Architecture

“…One way to address these issues that has been gaining popularity, in the larger computational science community, is the migration of applications towards the use of a scripting language interface to steer simulations [4]. The Synergia2 [12] application, a 3-D, parallel, particle-in-cell beam dynamics simulation toolkit, adopted a Python-steered simulation interface with the release of version two.…”