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Title	Recent Developments with the New Tools for Collimation Simulations in Xsuite
Author(s)	Van der Veken, Frederik (CERN) ; Abramov, Andrey (CERN) ; Broggi, Giacomo (CERN ; Rome U., La Sapienza, Dip. di Astron.) ; Cerutti, Francesco (CERN) ; D'Andrea, Marco (CERN) ; Demetriadou, Despina (CERN) ; Esposito, Luigi Salvatore (CERN) ; Hugo, Gabrielle (CERN) ; Iadarola, Giovanni (CERN) ; Lindström, Bjorn (CERN) ; Redaelli, Stefano (CERN) ; Rodin, Volodymyr (CERN) ; Triantafyllou, Natalia (CERN)
Publication	2024
Number of pages	5
In:	JACoW HB 2023 (2024) 474-478
In:	68th ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics workshop on high-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (HB 2023), CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 - 13 Oct 2023, pp.474-478
DOI	10.18429/JACoW-HB2023-THBP13
Subject category	Accelerators and Storage Rings
Abstract	Simulations of single-particle tracking involving collimation systems need dedicated tools to perform the different tasks needed. These include the accurate description of particle-matter interactions when a tracked particle impacts a collimator jaw; a detailed aperture model to identify the longitudinal location of losses; and others. One such tool is the K2 code in SixTrack, which describes the scattering of high-energy protons in matter. This code has recently been ported into the Xsuite tracking code that is being developed at CERN. Another approach is to couple the tracking with existing tools, such as FLUKA or Geant4, that offer better descriptions of particle-matter interactions and can treat lepton and ion beams. This includes the generation of secondary particles and fragmentation when tracking ions. In addition to the development of coupling with Geant4, the SixTrack-FLUKA coupling has recently been translated and integrated into the Xsuite environment as well. In this paper, we present the ongoing development of these tools. A thorough testing of the new implementation was performed, using as case studies various collimation layout configurations for the LHC Run 3.
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