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AKBP: Arbeitskreis Beschleunigerphysik
AKBP 2: New Accelerator Concepts II
AKBP 2.7: Talk
Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 11:15–11:30, MOL 213
PIC Simulations of PWFA at PITZ using a high order Discontinuous Galerkin Method — Stefan Frank1, Erion Gjonaj2, Andreas Jankowiak3, Gregor Loisch1, Alberto Martinez de la Ossa4, Atoosa Meseck3, Anne Oppelt1, Jens Osterhoff4, and •Valentin Wohlfarth1 — 1DESY Zeuthen, 15738 Zeuthen, Deutschland — 2TEMF TU Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Deutschland — 3Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, 14109 Berlin, Deutschland — 4DESY Hamburg, 22607 Hamburg, Deutschland
Several experiments investigating beam-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration (PWFA) are currently conducted at the Photo Injector Test Facility at DESY in Zeuthen (PITZ). So far, Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations for the preparation and theoretical evaluation of these experiments have been conducted with HiPACE, a code which is based on Poisson solvers to compute the electromagnetic fields. In this work, a code solving the fields with a high order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method [1] is used to reproduce simulations done with HiPACE and the resulting fields and particle beam distributions are compared.
[1] E. Gjonaj and T. Weiland, "Particle Based PWFA Simulations using a Discontinuous Galerkin Approach," in Proc. of ICEAA, 2010, pp. 604-607.