Talks on OPAL

1. Development of the simulation code OPAL, Snowmass’21
2. Start-to-end Modelling of FELs with OPAL-FEL Full Maxwell Solver
3. OPAL Introduction (2019)

Papers related to OPAL

1. OPAL a Versatile Tool for Charged Particle Accelerator Simulations, OPAL developer team (2020)

2. Computational Models for High-Power Cyclotrons and FFAs, Andreas Adelmann, Chris T. Rogers (2023)

3. Comparison of Multiobjective Optimization Methods for the LCLS-II Photoinjector, N. Neveu et al. (2022)

4. ALPINE: A set of performance portable plasma physics particle-in-cell mini-apps for exascale computing, S. Muralikrishnan et al. (2022)

5. Order-of-magnitude beam current improvement in compact cyclotrons, D. Winklehner et al. (2022)

6. Beam dynamics and characterization of a new high-intensity compact air-core high temperature superconducting skeleton cyclotron (HTS-SC), H. W. Koay et al. (2022)

7. Eliminating uncertainty of thermal emittance measurement in solenoid scans due to rf and solenoid fields overlap, L. Zheng et al. (2022)

8. Temporal shaping of narrow-band picosecond pulses via noncolinear sum-frequency mixing of dispersion-controlled pulses, R. Lemons et al. (2022)

9. Magnetic field analysis of shimmed DECY-13 cyclotron magnet, Taufik et al. (2022)

10. Benchmarking Collective Effects of Electron Interactions in a Wiggler with OPAL-FEL, A. Alba et al. (2021)

11. Beam stripping interactions in compact cyclotrons, P. Calvo et al. (2021)

12. Global sensitivity analysis on numerical solver parameters of Particle-In-Cell models in particle accelerator systems M. Frey et al. (2021)

13. Sparse grid-based adaptive noise reduction strategy for particle-in-cell schemes, S. Muralikrishnan et al. (2021)

14. Fast, efficient and flexible particle accelerator optimisation using densely connected and invertible neural networks, R. Bellotti et al. (2021)

15. Status of the Polarized Source and Beam Preparation System at MESA, S. Friederich et al. (2021)

16. Electromagnetic and Engineering Design of a High-Current 15-MeV/u Cyclotron, S. Kutsaev et al. (2021)

17. libEnsemble: A Library to Coordinate the Concurrent Evaluation of Dynamic Ensembles of Calculations, S. Hudson et al. (2021)

18. FFT-based free space Poisson solvers: why Vico-Greengard-Ferrando should replace Hockney-Eastwood, J. Zou et al. (2021)

19. Verification of DECY-13 cyclotron magnet design using cyclotron particle tracking codes, Taufik et al. (2021)

20. Optics design of vertical excursion fixed-field alternating gradient accelerators, S. Machida et al. (2021)

21. OPAL-MITHRA: Self-consistent Software for Start-to-End Simulation of Undulator-based Facilities, A. Alba et al. (2020)

22. Machine learning for orders of magnitude speedup in multiobjective optimization of particle accelerator systems, A. Edelen et al. (2020)

23. Matching of turn pattern measurements for cyclotrons using multiobjective optimization, M. Frey et al. (2019)

24. Realistic simulations of a cyclotron spiral inflector within a particle-in-cell framework, D. Winklehner, et al. (2017)

25. A Parallel General Purpose Multi-Objective Optimization Framework, with Application to Beam Dynamics, N. Neveu et al. (2013)

26. A Fast and Scalable Low Dimensional Solver for Charged Particle Dynamics in large Particle Accelerators, Y. Ineichen et al. (2013)

27. A novel adaptive time stepping variant of the Boris-Buneman integrator for the simulation of particle accelerators with space charge, M. Toggweiler et al. (2012)

28. Dark Current and Multipacting Capabilities in OPAL: Model Benchmarks and Applications, C. Wang et al. (2012)

29. Towards quantitative simulations of high power proton cyclotrons, Y.J. Bi et al. (2011)

30. Beam dynamics in high intensity cyclotrons including neighboring bunch effects: Model, implementation, and application , J.J. Yang et al. (2010)

31. A fast parallel poisson solver on irregular domains applied to beam dynamic simulations, A. Adelmann et al. (2010)

32. Improvements of a fast parallel Poisson solver on irregular domains, A. Adelmann et al. (2010)

Reports and thesis on OPAL

1. AMAS Master and PhD projects
2. Trim coil report (PSI Ring)
3. Report of Titus-Stefan Dascalu on Multipole, FFA and Synchrotron tracking. This work was supervised by Chris Rogers (RAL) and has been integrated in OPAL 2.0.0. .
4. Master thesis of Philippe Ganz, s-based maps from TPS & Lie-Series applied to Proton-Therapy Gantries. The work (OPAL-map) has been integrated in OPAL 2.0.0.
5. Optimizing the radioisotope production of the novel AMIT superconducting weak focusing cyclotron, Pedro Calvo, PhD Thesis, UCM-CIEMAT (2021).

OPAL lectures

1. OPAL Lecture -- Linac Modelling (input files etc. 2023)

2. OPAL Lecture 2 (outdated i.e. 2014)

3. OPAL Lecture 3 (outdated i.e. 2014)

4. Cyclotron Simulations with OPAL (September 2020)

OPAL Conference Contributions

1. High-Current H2+ Beams from a Compact Cyclotron using RFQ Direct Injection, D. Winklehner et al., IPAC2021, Campinas, SP, Brazil
2. Recent Developments of the Open Source Code OPAL, A. Adelmann, CYCLOTRONS2019, Cape Town, South Africa
3. Precise Modelling and Large Scale Multiobjective Optimisation of Cyclotrons, J. Snuverink et al., CYCLOTRONS2019, Cape Town, South Africa
4. Beam Stripping Interactions Implemented in Cyclotrons with OPAL Simulation Code, P. Calvo et al., CYCLOTRONS2019, Cape Town, South Africa
5. Opal Simulations of the PSI Ring Cyclotron and a Design for a Higher Order Mode Flat Top Cavity, N.J. Pogue et al., IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
6. Optics Development and Trajectory Tuning of bERLinPro at Low Energies, B. Kuske, M. Abo-Bakr, IPAC2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
7. Modeling and Optimization of the APS Photo-Injector Using OPAL for high Efficiency FEL Experiments, C. Hall et al., FEL2017
8. Update on OPAL (talk), A. Adelmann et al., CYCLOTRONS2016
9. Start-to-end Calculations and Trajectory Correction for bERLinPro, B. Kuske, Ch. Metzger-Kraus, IPAC2016, Busan, South Korea
10. Latest Improvements of OPAL, Ch. Metzger-Kraus et al, IPAC2016, Busan, South Korea
11. Photo-Injector Optimization and Validation Study with the OPAL Beam Simulation Code, L. D. Duffy et al., NAPAC2016
12. Benchmark of RF Photoinjector and Dipole Using ASTRA, GPT, and OPAL, N. Neveu et al., NAPAC2016
13. Progress on Simulation of Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators S. L. Sheehy et al., IPAC2015, Richmond, USA
14. Dynamic Kernel Scheduler (DKS) - Accelerating the Object Oriented Particle Accelerating Library (OPAL), U. Locans et al., ICAP2015
    • Contributed Talk
15. The Dark Current and Multipacting Capabilities in OPAL: Model, Benchmarks and Applications, C. Wang et al., ICAP2012, Rostock, Germany
    • Contributed Talk
16. OPAL a versatile Parallel Tool for Precise 3D Beam Dynamics Simulations (talk), A. Adelmann et al., ERL2011
17. A Field Emission and Secondary Emission Model in OPAL, C. Wang et al., HB2010, Morschach, Switzerland
18. First Commissioning Experience at the SwissFEL Injector Test Facility, T. Schietinger et al. Linac2010, Tsukuba, Japan
19. The Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library (OPAL), A. Adelmann et al., PAC2009
20. The Object Oriented Parallel Accelerator Library (OPAL), Design, Implementation and Application, A. Adelmann et al., ICAP2009
21. Measurements and Modeling at the PSI-XFEL 500 kV Low-Emittance Electron Source, T. Schietinger et al., Linac2008, Vancouver, Canada
22. Modeling High Intensity Beams in Cyclotrons (talk), J. Yang et al., HB2008

PSI BD Palaver Meetings

1. Orbit Matching in Ring cyclotron, N. Pogue