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Long-Term Simulations Of Beam-Beam Dynamics On Gpus, B. Terzić, K. Arumugam, R. Majeti, C. Cotnoir, M. Stefani, D. Ranjan, A. Godunov, V. Morozov, H. Zhang, F. Lin, Y. Roblin, E. Nissen, T. Satogata Jan 2017

Long-Term Simulations Of Beam-Beam Dynamics On Gpus, B. Terzić, K. Arumugam, R. Majeti, C. Cotnoir, M. Stefani, D. Ranjan, A. Godunov, V. Morozov, H. Zhang, F. Lin, Y. Roblin, E. Nissen, T. Satogata

Physics Faculty Publications

Future machines such as the electron-ion colliders (JLEIC), 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 which require millions of turns. Until recently, most of the methods used 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 and colliding them …


Gpu-Optimized Code For Long-Term Simulations Of Beam-Beam Effects In Colliders, Y. Roblin, V. Morozov, B. Terzić, M. Aturban, D. Ranjan, M. Zubair Jan 2013

Gpu-Optimized Code For Long-Term Simulations Of Beam-Beam Effects In Colliders, Y. Roblin, V. Morozov, B. Terzić, M. Aturban, D. Ranjan, M. Zubair

Computer Science Faculty Publications

We report on the development of the new code for long-term simulation of beam-beam effects in particle colliders. The underlying physical model relies on a matrix-based arbitrary-order symplectic particle tracking for beam transport and the Bassetti-Erskine approximation for beam-beam interaction. The computations are accelerated through a parallel implementation on a hybrid GPU/CPU platform. With the new code, a previously computationally prohibitive long-term simulations become tractable. We use the new code to model the proposed medium-energy electron-ion collider (MEIC) at Jefferson Lab.