Resonance trapping, stochastic diffusion and incoherent emittance growth induced by structured electron-cloud pinch

When a bunch passes through an electron cloud, the transverse electron density distribution is enhanced and modulated in time as a consequence of the motion of individual electrons under the action of the nonlinear beam field. The effect of this “structured” electron pinch together with the synchrotron motion of beam particles leads to an incoherent emittance growth via the excitation and repeated crossing of resonances, that can give rise to either stochastic “scattering” (“diffusion”) or trapping. We study these effects via a toy model of an idealized pinch, and present applications to the CERN SPS and the GSI SIS100

Generating optimized Fourier interpolation routines for density function theory using SPIRAL

© 2015 IEEE.Upsampling of a multi-dimensional data-set is an operation with wide application in image processing and quantum mechanical calculations using density functional theory. For small up sampling factors as seen in the quantum chemistry code ONETEP, a time-shift based implementation that shifts samples by a fraction of the original grid spacing to fill in the intermediate values using a frequency domain Fourier property can be a good choice. Readily available highly optimized multidimensional FFT implementations are leveraged at the expense of extra passes through the entire working set. In this paper we present an optimized variant of the time-shift based up sampling. Since ONETEP handles threading, we address the memory hierarchy and SIMD vectorization, and focus on problem dimensions relevant for ONETEP. We present a formalization of this operation within the SPIRAL framework and demonstrate auto-generated and auto-tuned interpolation libraries. We compare the performance of our generated code against the previous best implementations using highly optimized FFT libraries (FFTW and MKL). We demonstrate speed-ups in isolation averaging 3x and within ONETEP of up to 15%

Electron-Cloud Intrabunch Density Modulation

During the passage of a proton bunch through an electron cloud, a complicated electron density modulation arises, with characteristic ring or stripe patterns that move radially outward along the bunch. We present simulation results for field-free and dipole regions, which reveal the morphology and main features of this phenomenon, explain the physical origin of the stripes in either case, and discuss the dependence on key parameters

Space charge and electron clouds issues

We present here the relevant space charge issues for long-term beam storage. The impact on the choice of the working point along with the prediction of the beam loss is discussed for the example of the SIS100. We present a first estimate on the effect of self consistency and discuss the equivalence of space charge, and electron clouds induced ”quasi” incoherent effect

Galactic and Extragalactic Samples of Supernova Remnants: How They Are Identified and What They Tell Us

Supernova remnants (SNRs) arise from the interaction between the ejecta of a supernova (SN) explosion and the surrounding circumstellar and interstellar medium. Some SNRs, mostly nearby SNRs, can be studied in great detail. However, to understand SNRs as a whole, large samples of SNRs must be assembled and studied. Here, we describe the radio, optical, and X-ray techniques which have been used to identify and characterize almost 300 Galactic SNRs and more than 1200 extragalactic SNRs. We then discuss which types of SNRs are being found and which are not. We examine the degree to which the luminosity functions, surface-brightness distributions and multi-wavelength comparisons of the samples can be interpreted to determine the class properties of SNRs and describe efforts to establish the type of SN explosion associated with a SNR. We conclude that in order to better understand the class properties of SNRs, it is more important to study (and obtain additional data on) the SNRs in galaxies with extant samples at multiple wavelength bands than it is to obtain samples of SNRs in other galaxiesComment: Final 2016 draft of a chapter in "Handbook of Supernovae" edited by Athem W. Alsabti and Paul Murdin. Final version available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20794-0_90-

Accelerator Physics Code Web Repository

In the framework of the CARE HHH European Network, we have developed a web-based dynamic acceleratorphysics code repository. We describe the design, structure and contents of this repository, illustrate its usage, and discuss our future plans, with emphasis on code benchmarking