The OPAL Discussion Forum

[David Bruhwiler <bruhwiler AT radiasoft.net>]

Hi all,

Andreas -- thanks for referencing the work by Dan, Stephen and Nathan. I agree that their work could be used together with OPAL to address the problem of beam loading.

The Hellweg code (primary author Sergey Kutsaev of RadiaBeam) is well-benchmarked and fast software for the simulation of low-to-moderate energy electron beams in traveling wave linacs. You can find the source code, with documentation and a list of references on GitHub, https://github.com/radiasoft/rslinac

One could use Hellweg to find the cavity amplitudes and phases in the presence of beam loading, and then use these settings in OPAL to get an independent assessment of the resulting beam dynamics.

Best,

David

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On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:30 AM Adelmann Andreas (PSI) <andreas.adelmann AT psi.ch> wrote:

Hello Dragos, beam loading can not be modelled with the current version of OPAL. 

However in https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.20.052002

an interesting method was published which could be implemented without bigger problems in OPAL.

This could be an interesting project if you want to be involved with the OPAL development. 

Cheers A

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On 3 Aug 2020, at 10:55, Dragos Constantin <dragos.constantin AT varian.com> wrote:

Dear All,
I am modeling an emitted beam being accelerated by a few RF cavities. The beam
emission time is longer than the RF period. I expect to see that final beam
energy has some dependence on the beam current but it does not. How can I
correctly model the beam loading in OPAL?

Thanks,
Dragos