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

APOLLO: a facility-scale differentiable virtual accelerator for Fermilab

MOP6313
18 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

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

Speaker

Nikita Kuklev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Description

As the design complexity of modern accelerators grows, there is more interest in using advanced simulations that have fast execution time or yield additional insights like gradients. The FAST/IOTA facility has been working on implementing and experimentally validating an end-to-end digital twin that is both fast and gradient-aware, allowing for rapid prototyping of new software and experiments with minimal beam time costs. Our framework integrates physics and ML codes for linac and ring simulation through a set of generic interfaces between surrogate and physics-based sections. To reproduce device inputs and outputs, system state is exposed as a deterministic discrete event simulator. Both EPICS and ACNET frontends are supported and can operate in parallel. Recently, we transitioned to the new PALS community lattice standard, expanding use-cases to other facilities. We are also developing infrastructure for data ingest and normalization/tokenization to support running model calibration techniques from simple parameter fitting to full Bayesian inference. All of the above functionality is currently being validated during IOTA proton injector commissioning. We discuss implementation details as well as challenges, and future plans to extend modelling to main complex proton accelerators - PIPII and Booster.

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Author

Nikita Kuklev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

Co-authors

Aleksandr Romanov (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Jonathan Jarvis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Michael Wallbank (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Nilanjan Banerjee (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

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