51  Publications and Citation

The bibliography below is curated from the integrated OPALX physics chapters. A release-specific software citation and DOI will be added when the redesigned documentation is published as the canonical manual.

When reporting results today, record the exact OPALX revision and cite both the software repository and the publications associated with the physical model being used.

51.1 Student Projects and Contributions

All projects and associated resources in the following table are published in the AMAS completed-projects archive. The list includes projects that used OPAL or OPALX directly, or contributed models, algorithms, and software components incorporated into them.

Year Title Student
2025 Adaptive Energy Binning in OPALX Alexander Liemen
2024 A Dual-Space Multilevel Kernel-Splitting Algorithm for the Open Poisson Equation Ryan Ammann
2023 Accelerator Net Pranas Juknevicius
2022 On understanding the differences in measured and calculated energy spread in the SwissFEL injector Garðar Árni Skarphéðinsson
2021 A Performance Portable Poisson Solver for the Hose Instability Sonali Mayani
2020 Accelerating accelerators: Fast surrogate models for beam prediction Renato Bellotti
2020 On the Modelling of Collisions in Cold Particle Electron Sources Tim Wyssling
2020 Start-to-End Modelling of the AWA Microbunched Electron Cooling POP-Experiment Arnau Albà
2020 Precise Simulations of Multibunches in High Intensity Cyclotrons Matthias Frey
2018 Limitations of a linear transfer map method for finding matched distributions in high intensity cyclotrons Edgar Cristopher Cortés García
2018 Precise Beam Dynamics Models for Transport Lines in a Cyclotron-based Proton Therapy Facility Valeria Rizzoglio
2017 Future Processor Hardware Architectures for the Benefit of Precise Particle Accelerator Modeling Uldis Locans
2016 Central Region Design of a Compact High Intensity Cyclotron Jakob Jonnerby
2016 The P3M Model on Emerging Computer Architectures with Application to Microbunching Benjamin Ulmer
2016 Improving Single Core Performance in OPAL Lionel Miserez
2016 Space Charge Aspects of Particle Transport A. Kolano
2015 Performance Analysis of MKL Fast Fourier Transform on Intel Xeon Phi Benjamin Ulmer et al.
2015 Performance Analysis of MKL Fast Fourier Transform and FFT-based Poisson Solver on Intel Xeon Phi Benjamin Ulmer et al.
2015 Matched Distributions in Cyclotrons with Higher Order Moments of the Charge Distribution Matthias Frey
2014 Matched Distributions in Cyclotrons Matthias Frey
2014 A Self-Consistent Particle-In-Cell Time-Domain Solver Incorporating Radiative Interaction Christof Metzger-Kraus
2013 Double Degrader for Proton Therapy Helene Stachel
2013 Modeling of the COMET Cyclotron in OPAL and Switching Improvements of the Beam Intensity Jeroen Anthonius Veenendaal
2013 Parallelization of a Differential Algebra Framework Matthias Frey
2013 A Homotopy Method for Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization Andrew Foster
2013 Toward Massively Parallel Multi-Objective Optimization with Application to Particle Accelerators Yves Ineichen
2012 Towards Large-Scale Simulation-Based Multi-Objective Optimization Andrew Foster
2011 An Adaptive Time Integration Method for more Efficient Simulation of Particle Accelerators Matthias Toggweiler
2011 Towards quantitative simulations of high power proton cyclotrons Yuanjie Bi
2010 Beam dynamics in high intensity cyclotrons including neighboring bunch effects Jianjun Yang
2008 A Parallel Multigrid Solver for Beam Dynamics Yves Ineichen
2008 Short-range Wakefield Model Implementation in OPAL Stefan Pauli

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