OPAL-T: missing particles stored in the monitor
I am running the following simulation (input file attached):
Beam: 250 MeV proton beam degraded to 230 MeV due to interaction with graphite
Last part of the beamline without CollimatorPhysics
KMA8: ECOLLIMATOR, XSIZE=0.007, YSIZE=0.007, L=0.075, ZSIZE=0.075, ELEMEDGE=19.004;
MMAP25X: MONITOR, OUTFN="MMAP25X.h5", ELEMEDGE=30.3;The simulation ends ZSTOP = 34.4 m so there are 4 m of drift space (no losses) between the monitor MMAP25X and the end of the simulation.
The longitudinal beam extension is 0.5 m: the entire beam crosses the monitor. In this case the number of particles recorded by the monitor MMAP25X agrees with the protons stored at the end of the simulation.
If I apply the CollimatorPhysics on KMA8,
CopperCol: SURFACEPHYSICS, TYPE="COLLIMATOR", MATERIAL="Copper";
KMA8: ECOLLIMATOR, XSIZE=0.007, YSIZE=0.007, L=0.075, ZSIZE=0.075, SURFACEPHYSICS=CopperCol, ELEMEDGE=19.004;then the longitudinal beam extension increases to 2 m due to the scattering effect. Even in this case, the entire beam should cross the monitor, however the number of protons recorded by the monitor is less than the final number of particles:
Protons at MMAP25X: 9312
Protons at the last step: 9988
Collimator does not go Offline
The situation does not change moving the monitor closer to the collimator (= increasing the distance between the monitor and ZSTOP)
OPAL Version: "old " OPAL binary from Uldis (/home/scratch/locans/install/opal-dks-1.5/src/)
OPAL> This is OPAL (Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library) Version 1.5.00.1
OPAL> OPAL compiled with DKS (Dynamic Kernel Scheduler) Version 1.0.2at the moment this is the only binary I can use that runs the CollimatorPhysics multi-cores and writes the monitor files (issue #29 (closed)).