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

Dear Simon I do not know anyone who did this. One would also

need to know what the model of CST is, i.e. what is the criteria

for creating particles with different charges. 

 

Cheers A

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On 14 Sep 2020, at 10:39, Simon Friederich <sifriede AT uni-mainz.de> wrote:

Dear all,

From CST I can export a particle distribution. In contrast to OPAL (and propably most of the other available simulation codes):
CST weights the macro particles by different macro charges instead of having the same macro-charge for all particles. The number of particles is (almost) equally distributed (slightly influenced by the simulation accuracy).

I am thinking of a way to convert the CST distribution to one, that can be used in OPAL (using FROMFILE).
Has anyone faced this task before and has a method/script that (s)he might share?

[I've looked into the python script by Bettina Kuske and Dieter Faulbaum (HZB), that converts an ASTRA distribution to OPAL, but it's unfortunately not suitable as ASTRA has a const. macro-charge for all particles, right?]

Thanks again in advance.

Best regards,
Simon

P.S.: I am sorry, that I've opened a second request mail, but being able to convert CST distributions to OPAL would circumvent the DC acceleration problem (see my last listing mail) for now.

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