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High-Fidelity Simulations Of Long-Term Beam-Beam Dynamics On Gpus, B. Terzić, K. Arumugam, M. Aturban, C. Cotnoir, A. Godunov, D. Ranjan, M. Stefani, M. Zubair, F. Lin, V. Morozov, Y. Roblin, H. Zhang

Physics Faculty Publications

Future machines such as the Electron Ion Collider (MEIC), linac-ring machines (eRHIC) or LHeC are particularly sensitive to beam-beam effects. This is the limiting factor for long-term stability and high luminosity reach. The complexity of the non-linear dynamics makes it challenging to perform such simulations typically requiring millions of turns. Until recently, most of the methods have involved using linear approximations and/or tracking for a limited number of turns. We have developed a framework which exploits a massively parallel Graphical Processing Units (GPU) architecture to allow for tracking millions of turns in a sympletic way up to an arbitrary order. …