BDSIM: Recent Developments and New Features Beyond V1.0

Laurence Nevay; Andrey Abramov; Albrecht Joshua; Siobhan Alden; Stewart  Boogert; Hector Garcia Morales; Stephen Gibson; William Shields; Stuart Walker; Jochem Snuverink

doi:10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPTS058

BDSIM: Recent Developments and New Features Beyond V1.0

Laurence Nevay, Andrey Abramov, Albrecht Joshua, Siobhan Alden, Stewart Boogert, Hector Garcia Morales, Stephen Gibson, William Shields, Stuart Walker, Jochem Snuverink

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Abstract

BDSIM is a program that creates a 3D model of an accelerator from an optical beam line description using a suite of high energy physics software including Geant4, CLHEP and ROOT. In one single simulation the passage of particles can be tracked accurately through an accelerator including the interaction with the accelerator material and subsequent secondary radiation production and transport. BDSIM is regularly used to simulate beam loss and energy deposition as well as machine detector interface studies. In this paper we present the latest developments beyond BDSIM V1.0 added for ongoing studies. For simulation of collimation systems several new additions are described including new element geometry, enhanced sensitivity and output information. The output has been further enhanced with aperture impact information and dose information from scoring meshes. As well as supporting the full suite of Geant4 physics lists, a new user interface is described allowing custom physics lists and user components to be easily included in BDSIM. New undulator, crystal collimator and wire-scanner elements are also described.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	10th International Particle Accelerator Conference
Publisher	JACoW Publishing
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-95450-208-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2019-WEPTS058
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2019

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