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Record Id	38005871
Title	Virtual VELA-CLARA: the development of a virtual accelerator
Contributors	TJ Price (STFC Daresbury Lab.) (Pr.Au.), RF Clarke (STFC Daresbury Lab.), HM Castaneda Cortes (STFC Daresbury Lab.), DJ Dunning (STFC Daresbury Lab.), JK Jones (STFC Daresbury Lab.), BD Muratori (STFC Daresbury Lab.), DJ Scott (STFC Daresbury Lab.), BJA Shepherd (STFC Daresbury Lab.), PH Williams (STFC Daresbury Lab.), G Cox (STFC Daresbury Lab.)
Abstract	A Virtual Accelerator (VA) has been developed to mimic the accelerators Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator (VELA) and Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA). Its purpose is to test control room applications, run start-to-end simulations with multiple simulation codes, accurately reproduce measured beam properties, conduct 'virtual experiments'and gain insight into ‘hidden beam parameters'. This paper gives an overview into the current progress in constructing this VA, detailing the areas of: developing a 'Virtual EPICS' control system, using multiple simulation codes (both particle tracking and analytic), the development of a ‘Master Lattice' and the construction of a Python interface in which to run the VA.
Organisation	ASTeC , ASTeC-AP , ASTeC-MaRS , CI , STFC , CLARA , ASTeC-DL , CLARA-ACC
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Licence Information:	Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Language	English (EN)

Type	Details	URI(s)	Local file(s)	Year
Paper In Conference Proceedings	In 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 18), Vancouver, Canada, 29 Apr 2018 - 4 May 2018, (2018): 4773-4776.	https://proceedin…/papers/thpml060.pdf		2018