The RF-Track tracking code – Features and example applications

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Title: The RF-Track tracking code – Features and example applications
Description: RF-Track is a tracking code developed at CERN for simulating and optimising particle accelerators. It specialises in high-intensity linacs, positron sources, Inverse-Compton Scattering sources, photoinjectors, RFQs, medical accelerators and unconventional setups such as the cooling channel of a potential muon collider. RF-Track can simulate beams of particles of any energy, mass and charge, including mixed-species beams and spin polarization. It can transport single and multi-bunch beams through conventional and special elements including: 1D, 2D and 3D static or oscillating radio-frequency electromagnetic field maps, flux concentrators, and electron coolers. RF-Track allows element overlapping and backtracking including collective effects. It allows the simulation of space-charge forces in bunched and continuous beams, synchrotron radiation emission, short- and long-range wakefields, beam loading and its compensation, intra-beam scattering, particle-matter interactions, and the list of collective effects is growing. RF-Track is written in optimised and parallel C++ and comes in two versions: one for use in Octave and the other in Python. In this seminar, an overview of the code is presented along with selected examples of its application and a live demonstration.