17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

Moonlight on the Serengeti: Casting (Digital) Shadows with NALA, SIMBA, PUMBAA and Friends

WEV6003
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Invited poster MC6.T33: Online Modelling and Software Tools Poster session

Speaker

James Jones (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Description

Digital shadows offer a methodology for bridging physical particle accelerators with their virtual counterparts, enabling predictive modelling, automated control, and improvements in facility design and implementation. A digital shadow for the CLARA accelerator is being developed, integrating two complementary tools: NALA, an ontology-driven description language for particle accelerator lattices; and SIMBA, a simulation framework that utilises NALA-defined models to perform start-to-end particle tracking using multiple tracking codes. Together, NALA and SIMBA form the simulation backbone of a digital shadow, providing a consistent and extensible representation of the accelerator. This architecture is further augmented by pyCATAP, a controls middle layer that interfaces with accelerator control systems, PUMBAA, a procedural automation framework for running complex operational tasks, and standardising I/O data structures, SARABI, a framework for generating soft EPICS IOCs from a NALA lattice.

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Author

James Jones (Science and Technology Facilities Council)

Co-authors

Alexander Brynes (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Dr Mark Johnson (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Matthew King (Daresbury Laboratory)

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