Xsuite: an integrated beam physics simulation framework
Abstract
Xsuite is a newly developed modular simulation package combining in a single flexible and modern framework the capabilities of different tools developed at CERN in the past decades, notably Sixtrack, Sixtracklib, COMBI and PyHEADTAIL. The suite consists of a set of Python modules (Xobjects, Xpart, Xtrack, Xcoll, Xfields, Xdeps) that can be flexibly combined together and with other accelerator-specific and general-purpose python tools to study complex simulation scenarios. The code allows for symplectic modeling of the particle dynamics, combined with the effect of synchrotron radiation, impedances, feedbacks, space charge, electron cloud, beam-beam, beamstrahlung, and electron lenses. For collimation studies, beam-matter interaction is simulated using the K2 scattering model or interfacing Xsuite with the BDSIM/Geant4 library. Tools are available to compute the accelerator optics functions from the tracking model and to generate particle distributions matched to the optics. Different computing platforms are supported, including conventional CPUs, as well as GPUs from different vendors.
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@article{arxiv.2310.00317,
title = {Xsuite: an integrated beam physics simulation framework},
author = {G. Iadarola and R. De Maria and S. Lopaciuk and A. Abramov and X. Buffat and D. Demetriadou and L. Deniau and P. Hermes and P. Kicsiny and P. Kruyt and A. Latina and L. Mether and K. Paraschou and Sterbini and F. Van Der Veken and P. Belanger and P. Niedermayer and D. Di Croce and T. Pieloni and L. Van Riesen-Haupt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.00317},
year = {2023}
}