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["Adelmann Andreas (PSI)" <andreas.adelmann AT psi.ch>]

Dear Andreas et al,

very good idea indeed.

One comment: I would expect that the van-der-Waals 
constants "a" and "b" can be neglected at gas densities 
in which cyclotrons are able to work, probably even close 
to internal ion sources.

You are probable right and this brings an other question to the surface: how

do we specify the pressure in the vacuum chamber. Do we add to each 

lattice element pressure value? Do we assume over a lattice element the pressure

does not change? 

Of course it would be interesting to have this kind of loss
Monte Carlo also for H2+, though I am not sure if cross
section data for different vibration states are known…

There is some knowledge, the figure below is from https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4895

One question: Did you also consider to trace stripped 
ions to the walls of the vacuum tank to enable for a 
prediction of activation hot spots?

See my comment to Jon and yes OPAL can handle geometries and we 

should be able to know where particles are hitting the wall. 

A

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Dears

As a OPAL project collaborators, we are interested in vacuum stripping
implementation in the code. So, we have drafted  a document that
summarizes the main models for particle interactions in a cyclotron, as
Andreas Adelmann suggested us few months ago. This is a first draft,
focused on H- ions, but with references to H2+ ions. In addition to the
stripping of residual gas I have included the magnetic field stripping
Here a link (https://www.overleaf.com/12081868dfvxxgzzqvdq#/45866384) with
the LaTex document. We would appreciate any comments or suggestions on
this topic

Best regards

Pedro Calvo Portela
Unidad de Aceleradores - CIEMAT
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