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[Wei Hou Tan <tanweihou AT outlook.com>]

Dear OPAL developers,

This is Wei Hou TAN, graduate student working with Prof. Philippe Piot in the Northern Illinois University.

I would like to learn OPAL, starting by cross-checking its results with ASTRA.

In my toy example, I simulated a rf gun with both ASTRA and OPAL.

However, I am having problems getting same results in OPAL.

I have checked that both ASTRA and OPAL have the same distributions, same RF phase.

I suspected that OPAL has a different definition of reference particle but I could not find any documentations on it.

What is OPAL convention of reference particle ?

Thank you.

Regards

Wei Hou