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

Benchmarking beam dynamics simulations for the MYRRHA Phase 1 accelerator

WEP6154
20 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Board: Wednesday roquefort: RE15
Poster Presentation MC6.T33: Online Modelling and Software Tools Poster session

Speaker

Lennert De Keukeleere (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)

Description

At the Nuclear Research Center SCK CEN in Belgium, the first phase of the MYRRHA project (an accelerator driven system) is under construction. Included in MYRRHA Phase 1 are a 17 MeV normal conducting injector linac (RFQ + CH cavities) and a super conducting linac (60 single spoke cavities), providing a CW proton beam of 4 mA at 100 MeV.
In this contribution, beam dynamics simulations of the MYRRHA Phase 1 accelerator are compared for four different beam dynamics codes: TRACEWIN, pyORBIT3, DYNAC and pyACCEL. The beam simulation results for a reference case are compared, as well as the computing times. Furthermore, approximations which can be made to speed up the computation times are discussed. These comparisons are made in view of a future on-line deployment of a simulation tool during beam commissioning.

Paper status Proceeding files received

Author

Lennert De Keukeleere (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)

Co-authors

Mr Eugene Tanke (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre) Jarno Van De Walle (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre) Jeroen Hustings (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre) Ulrich Dorda (Belgian Nuclear Research Centre)

Presentation materials