APFRFQ – A SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-CURRENT LINEAR ION ACCELERATORS WITH RF FOCUSING

Abstract

Presented is an interactive environment, APFRFQ, for calculating linear accelerators based on rf field focusing of different types, namely, alternating phase focusing (APF), rf quadrupole focusing (RFQ) and a combination of previous two methods (APF&RFQ). The APFRFQ environment is capable of performing the following tasks in the interactive mode: setting the parameters of the accelerating gaps, calculating the accelerating-focusing channels of linear accelerators taking into account the real geometry of the electrodes, performing numerical simulation of particle dynamics in the calculated channels with the space charge forces taking into account, matching the input parameters of the beam with the given six-dimensional phase distribution and the accelerating structure.