IPAC2022 - List of Authors (Press, A.F.)

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WEPOTK054	Experimental Verification of DARHT Axis 1 Injector PIC Simulations	2183
	A.F. Press, M.A. Jaworski, D.C. Moir, S. Szustkowski LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
	Validated particle in cell (PIC) simulations of the DARHT Axis 1 injector have the potential to reduce accelerator downtime, assist experimental data analysis and improve accelerator tunes. To realize these benefits, the simulations must be validated with experimental results. In this work, the particle in cell code Chicago is used to simulate the injector region of the dual-axis radiographic hydrodynamic test facility (DARHT) first axis. These simulations are validated against experiment using measured anode-cathode voltage, beam current at three positions, optical transition radiation and previously calculated emittance. Since all of these measurements contain some variation, the respective simulation parameters are varied to understand their effect. The resulting simulated beam current distributions can then be compared to the measured 2RMS radius. This resulted in a reasonably well validated simulation model. Some inconstancy between simulated and measured results still exists, which future work will address.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOTK054
About •	Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 04 July 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 July 2022
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Experimental Verification of DARHT Axis 1 Injector PIC Simulations

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A.F. Press, M.A. Jaworski, D.C. Moir, S. Szustkowski
LANL, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA

Validated particle in cell (PIC) simulations of the DARHT Axis 1 injector have the potential to reduce accelerator downtime, assist experimental data analysis and improve accelerator tunes. To realize these benefits, the simulations must be validated with experimental results. In this work, the particle in cell code Chicago is used to simulate the injector region of the dual-axis radiographic hydrodynamic test facility (DARHT) first axis. These simulations are validated against experiment using measured anode-cathode voltage, beam current at three positions, optical transition radiation and previously calculated emittance. Since all of these measurements contain some variation, the respective simulation parameters are varied to understand their effect. The resulting simulated beam current distributions can then be compared to the measured 2RMS radius. This resulted in a reasonably well validated simulation model. Some inconstancy between simulated and measured results still exists, which future work will address.

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reference for this paper ※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOTK054

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Received ※ 06 June 2022 — Revised ※ 10 June 2022 — Accepted ※ 04 July 2022 — Issue date ※ 05 July 2022

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reference for this paper using ※ BibTeX, ※ LaTeX, ※ Text/Word, ※ RIS, ※ EndNote (xml)