OPAL a Versatile Tool for Charged Particle Accelerator Simulations, OPAL developer team (2020)

Talks on OPAL

  1. Development of the simulation code OPAL, Snowmass'21

  2. Start-to-end Modelling of FELs with OPAL-FEL Full Maxwell Solver

  3. OPAL Introduction (2019)

Papers related to OPAL

  1. IsoDAR@Yemilab: Preliminary Design Report — Volume I: Cyclotron Driver, D. Winklehner et al. (2024)

  2. Neural Networks as Effective Surrogate Models of Radio-Frequency Quadrupole Particle Accelerator Simulations, J. Villarreal et al. (2024)

  3. Analyzing beam-gas interactions in an H2+ cyclotron beam, P. Calvo et al. (2023)

  4. Computational Models for High-Power Cyclotrons and FFAs, A. Adelmann, C. Rogers (2023)

  5. A New Family of High-Current Cyclotrons for Isotope Production, D. Winklehner et al. (2023)

  6. Comparison of Multiobjective Optimization Methods for the LCLS-II Photoinjector, N. Neveu et al. (2023)

  7. Nonlinearly Shaped Pulses in Photoinjectors and Free-Electron Lasers, N. Neveu et al. (2023)

  8. Performance analysis of indicators of chaos for nonlinear dynamical systems, A. Bazzani et al. (2023)

  9. Modeling and implementation of vertical excursion FFA in the Zgoubi ray-tracing code, M. Vanwelde et al. (2023)

  10. Enabling a Multi-Purpose High-Energy Neutron Source Based on High-Current Compact Cyclotrons, L. Snead et al. (2023)

  11. Snowmass21 Accelerator Modeling Community White Paper by the Beam and Accelerator Modeling Interest Group (2022)

  12. Scaling and performance portability of the particle-in-cell scheme for plasma physics applications through mini-apps targeting exascale architectures, S. Muralikrishnan et al. (2022)

  13. ALPINE: A set of performance portable plasma physics particle-in-cell mini-apps for exascale computing, S. Muralikrishnan et al. (2022)

  14. Order-of-magnitude beam current improvement in compact cyclotrons, D. Winklehner et al. (2022)

  15. Eliminating uncertainty of thermal emittance measurement in solenoid scans due to rf and solenoid fields overlap, L. Zheng et al. (2022)

  16. Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses, R. Lemons et al. (2022)

  17. Magnetic field analysis of shimmed DECY-13 cyclotron magnet, Taufik et al. (2022)

  18. A hybrid numerical approach to the propagation of charged particle beams through matter for hadron therapy beamline simulations, C. Hernalsteens at al. (2022)

  19. Beam dynamics and characterization of a new high-intensity compact air-core high temperature superconducting skeleton cyclotron (HTS-SC), H. W. Koay et al. (2022)

  20. Eliminating uncertainty of thermal emittance measurement in solenoid scans due to rf and solenoid fields overlap, L. Zheng et al. (2022)

  21. Benchmarking Collective Effects of Electron Interactions in a Wiggler with OPAL-FEL, A. Alba et al. (2021)

  22. MinT: A Fast Lightweight Envelope/Monte-Carlo Beam Optics Code for the Proton Beamlines of the Paul Scherrer Institute, C. Baumgarten (2022)

  23. libEnsemble: A Library to Coordinate the Concurrent Evaluation of Dynamic Ensembles of Calculations, S. Hudson et al. (2022)

  24. Beam stripping interactions in compact cyclotrons, P. Calvo et al. (2021)

  25. Magnetic field analysis of shimmed DECY-13 cyclotron magnet, W. Taufik et al. (2021)

  26. Global sensitivity analysis on numerical solver parameters of Particle-In-Cell models in particle accelerator systems, M. Frey et al. (2021)

  27. Sparse grid-based adaptive noise reduction strategy for particle-in-cell schemes, S. Muralikrishnan et al. (2021)

  28. Fast, efficient and flexible particle accelerator optimisation using densely connected and invertible neural networks, R. Bellotti et al. (2021)

  29. Electromagnetic and Engineering Design of a High-Current 15-MeV/u Cyclotron, S. Kutsaev et al. (2021)

  30. FFT-based free space Poisson solvers: why Vico-Greengard-Ferrando should replace Hockney-Eastwood, J. Zou et al. (2021)

  31. Verification of DECY-13 cyclotron magnet design using cyclotron particle tracking codes, Taufik et al. (2021)

  32. Optics design of vertical excursion fixed-field alternating gradient accelerators, S. Machida et al. (2021)

  33. OPAL-MITHRA: Self-consistent Software for Start-to-End Simulation of Undulator-based Facilities, A. Alba et al. (2020)

  34. Machine learning for orders of magnitude speedup in multiobjective optimization of particle accelerator systems, A. Edelen et al. (2020)

  35. On Nonintrusive Uncertainty Quanti cation and Surrogate Model Construction in Particle Accelerator Modeling, A. Adelmann (2019)

  36. Matching of turn pattern measurements for cyclotrons using multiobjective optimization, M. Frey et al. (2019)

  37. Realistic simulations of a cyclotron spiral inflector within a particle-in-cell framework, D. Winklehner et al. (2017)

  38. The Dynamic Kernel Scheduler—​Part 1, A. Adelmann et al. (2016)

  39. Cyclotrons and FFAG Accelerators as Drivers for ADS, L. Calabretta et al. (2015)

  40. A Parallel General Purpose Multi-Objective Optimization Framework, with Application to Beam Dynamics, N. Neveu et al. (2013)

  41. A Fast and Scalable Low Dimensional Solver for Charged Particle Dynamics in large Particle Accelerators, Y. Ineichen et al. (2013)

  42. A novel adaptive time stepping variant of the Boris-Buneman integrator for the simulation of particle accelerators with space charge, M. Toggweiler et al. (2012)

  43. Dark Current and Multipacting Capabilities in OPAL: Model Benchmarks and Applications, C. Wang et al. (2012)

  44. Towards quantitative simulations of high power proton cyclotrons, Y.J. Bi et al. (2011)

  45. Beam dynamics in high intensity cyclotrons including neighboring bunch effects: Model, implementation, and application , J.J. Yang et al. (2010)

  46. A fast parallel poisson solver on irregular domains applied to beam dynamic simulations, A. Adelmann et al. (2010)

  47. Improvements of a fast parallel Poisson solver on irregular domains, A. Adelmann et al. (2010)

Reports and thesis on OPAL

  1. AMAS Master and PhD projects

  2. Trim coil report (PSI Ring)

  3. Report of Titus-Stefan Dascalu on Multipole, FFA and Synchrotron tracking. This work was supervised by Chris Rogers (RAL) and has been integrated in OPAL 2.0.0. .

  4. Master thesis of Philippe Ganz, s-based maps from TPS & Lie-Series applied to Proton-Therapy Gantries. The work (OPAL-map) has been integrated in OPAL 2.0.0.

  5. Optimizing the radioisotope production of the novel AMIT superconducting weak focusing cyclotron, Pedro Calvo, PhD Thesis, UCM-CIEMAT (2021).

OPAL lectures

  1. OPAL Lecture 2023 — Linac Modelling (input files tgz compressed)

  2. OPAL Lecture 2023 — General Introduction (lecture notes)

  3. OPAL Lecture 2023 — OPAL-t (lecture notes)

  4. Cyclotron Simulations with OPAL (September 2020)

OPAL Conference Contributions

  1. PSI Injector II and the 72 MeV Transfer Line: MinT-Simulation vs. Measurements, C. Baumgarten et al., HB2023

  2. Injection Into XFELs, a Review of Trends and Challenges, C. Davut et al. FLS2023

  3. Model-independent determination of solenoid offsets in the Sealab Injector, B. Kuske, IPAC23

  4. Simulation and Analysis of HIMM-IC Beam Dynamics with OPAL, G. Dou, CYCLOTRONS2022

  5. Summary of the Snowmass'21 Workshop on High Power Cyclotrons and FFAs, D. Winklehner et al., CYCLOTRONS2022

  6. Benchmarking Simulation for AWA Drive Linac and Emittance Exchange Beamline Using OPAL, GPT, and Impact-T, S. Kim et al. NAPAC2022

  7. Integrated Photonics Structure Cathodes for Longitudinally Shaped Bunch Trains, S. Coleman et al. NAPAC2022

  8. Model-Based Calibration of Control Parameters at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator, I. Sugrue et al. nAPAC2022

  9. Conceptual Design of the PERLE Injector, B. Hounsell et al. LINAC2022

  10. Longitudinal Bunch Shaping Using an X-Band Transverse Deflecting Cavity Powered by Wakefield Power Extractor at Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility, S. Kim et al. IPAC2022

  11. High-Current H2+ Beams from a Compact Cyclotron using RFQ Direct Injection, D. Winklehner et al., IPAC2021

  12. Status of the Polarized Source and Beam Preparation System at MESA, S. Friederich et al. IPAC2021

  13. Optimization of a High Bunch Charge ERL Injection Merger for PERLE, B. Hounsell et al. IPAC2021

  14. Dispersion Controlled Temporal Shaping of Photoinjector Laser Pulses for Electron Emittance Reduction in X-Ray Free Electron Lasers, R. Lemons et al. IPAC2021

  15. Recent Developments of the Open Source Code OPAL, A. Adelmann, CYCLOTRONS2019

  16. Precise Modelling and Large Scale Multiobjective Optimisation of Cyclotrons, J. Snuverink et al., CYCLOTRONS2019

  17. Beam Stripping Interactions Implemented in Cyclotrons with OPAL Simulation Code, P. Calvo et al., CYCLOTRONS2019

  18. Development of a Replacement for the Long Radial Probe in the Ring Cyclotron, R. Dölling et al. CYCLOTRONS2019

  19. Conceptual Design of Central Region for High-Temperature Superconducting Skeleton Cyclotron (HTS-SC), H. W. Koay et al. CYCLOTRONS2019

  20. Opal Simulations of the PSI Ring Cyclotron and a Design for a Higher Order Mode Flat Top Cavity, N.J. Pogue et al., IPAC2017

  21. Optics Development and Trajectory Tuning of bERLinPro at Low Energies, B. Kuske, M. Abo-Bakr, IPAC2017

  22. Modeling and Optimization of the APS Photo-Injector Using OPAL for high Efficiency FEL Experiments, C. C. Hall et al., FEL2017

  23. Update on OPAL (talk), A. Adelmann et al., CYCLOTRONS2016

  24. Start-to-end Calculations and Trajectory Correction for bERLinPro, B. Kuske and Ch. Metzger-Kraus, IPAC2016

  25. Latest Improvements of OPAL, Ch. Metzger-Kraus et al., IPAC2016

  26. Photo-Injector Optimization and Validation Study with the OPAL Beam Simulation Code, L. D. Duffy et al., NAPAC2016

  27. Benchmark of RF Photoinjector and Dipole Using ASTRA, GPT, and OPAL, N. Neveu et al., NAPAC2016

  28. Progress on Simulation of Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators S. L. Sheehy et al., IPAC2015

  29. Dynamic Kernel Scheduler (DKS) - Accelerating the Object Oriented Particle Accelerating Library (OPAL), U. Locans et al., ICAP2015

  30. The Dark Current and Multipacting Capabilities in OPAL: Model, Benchmarks and Applications, C. Wang et al., ICAP2012

  31. OPAL a versatile Parallel Tool for Precise 3D Beam Dynamics Simulations (talk), A. Adelmann et al., ERL2011

  32. A Field Emission and Secondary Emission Model in OPAL, C. Wang et al., HB2010

  33. First Commissioning Experience at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility, T. Schietinger et al. Linac2010

  34. The Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library (OPAL), A. Adelmann et al., PAC2009

  35. Space Charge Simulation on High Intensity Cyclotrons: Code Development and Applications, J. J. Yang et al. PAC2009

  36. The Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library (OPAL), Design, Implementation and Application, A. Adelmann et al., ICAP2009

  37. Measurements and Modeling at the PSI-XFEL 500 kV Low-Emittance Electron Source, T. Schietinger et al., LINAC2008

  38. Numerical Study of Beam Dynamics in High Intensity Cyclotrons Including Neighboring Bunch Effects, J. Yang et al., HB2008

PSI BD Palaver Meetings

  1. Orbit Matching in Ring cyclotron, N. Pogue