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Description
Simulations of particle accelerators are fundamentally important both to help in understanding measurements, and to plan future experiments. Start-to-end simulations, which begin with the initial generation of a particle distribution in a gun, up to the final beam energy, often require switching between codes to account for the differences between models. Tools which are able to switch between codes seamlessly along the accelerator lattice can therefore be very useful. This contribution presents a simulation tool that can simulate the FERMI free-electron laser injector, linac, and FEL lines with the complexity of creating individual lattice and input files abstracted away. All simulation files and pertinent information are saved to a shared database, in order to help users keep track of simulations that have been run. This tool is therefore able to streamline and simplify the start-to-end simulation process, to improve the ways in which data are stored, and to provide direct comparisons between simulations and measurements.
