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[Opal] OPAL 2021.1.0 release


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  • From: "Gsell Achim (PSI)" <achim.gsell AT psi.ch>
  • To: opal <opal AT lists.psi.ch>
  • Subject: [Opal] OPAL 2021.1.0 release
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:53:55 +0000
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Dear OPAL users,

we are happy to announce OPAL 2021.1.0

New features are:

- New Undulator element with its own FDTD electromagnetic solver,
making use of the (MITHRA) library
- LOWENERGYTHR attribute for energy loss calculation by
PARTICLEMATTERINTERACTION command
- Energy loss calculation and beam scattering are available for all light ions
- Stopping power at low energy region
- ALPHA particles are supported in BEAM command
- ENABLEVTK option (default true) to control writing of voxel mesh output
- OUTFN attribute has been added to Cyclotron and Source elements
- Gas stripping is now available for DEUTERON beams and H2P beams in AIR

More work has been done to fix bugs and cleanup the code.

For more details especially changes in the input and output files please read
the release notes:
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/ReleaseNotes/OPAL-2021.1

The up to date manual can be found here:
HTML: http://amas.web.psi.ch/opal/Documentation/2021.1/
PDF: http://amas.web.psi.ch/opal/Documentation/2021.1/Manual.pdf

More information including links to download the source code and binary
packages for Linux and macOS can be found here:
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/

On behalf of the OPAL developers

Achim

PS: please report all issues to opal AT lists.psi.ch

Senior Scientist
Paul Scherrer Institut
Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modeling
OHSA/D04
5232 Villigen PSI

  • [Opal] OPAL 2021.1.0 release, Gsell Achim (PSI), 09/20/2021

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