RF-Track Reference Manual

RF-Track is a tracking code developed at CERN for the optimization of particle accelerators, which offers outstanding flexibility and rapid simulation speed. RF-Track can simulate beams of particles with arbitrary energy, mass, and charge, even mixed, solving fully relativistic equations of motion. It can simulate wakefield effects, incoherent synchrotron radiation, beam loading, passage through matter, the effects of space-charge forces, both in bunched and continuous-wave beams. It can transport the beams through common elements as well as through "special" ones: 1D, 2D, and 3D static or oscillating radio-frequency electromagnetic field maps (real and complex), flux concentrators, and electron coolers. It allows element overlap and direct and indirect space-charge calculation using fast parallel algorithms. RF-Track is written in optimized and parallel C++ and uses the scripting languages Octave and Python as user interfaces. General knowledge of Octave or Python is recommended to get the best out of RF-Track.