BDSIM : An Accelerator Tracking Code with Particle-Matter Interactions
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 37169250
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107200
- Title of journal
- Computer Physics Communications
- Article number
- 107200
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 0
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 0010-4655
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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10
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper corresponds to the public release of a major piece of software that permits rapid modelling and comprehensive simulation of particle accelerators. Our approach is novel because it enables accurate tracking of primary and secondary particles by accounting for interactions in matter. This software is applicable to all particle accelerators and has attracted new users from high energy physics, light sources and medical accelerators. BDSIM allows non-expert users to perform comprehensive simulations and accelerator optimisation in previously impossible timescales. BDSIM is applied in the study of novel collimation, which forms part of the recently awarded STFC/CERN HL-LHC-UK-II grant (£26M).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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