10–15 Aug 2025
SAFE Credit Union Convention Center
America/Los_Angeles timezone

A community effort toward a Particle Accelerator Lattice Standard (PALS)

TUP004
12 Aug 2025, 16:00
2h
Ballroom A (SAFE Credit Union Convention Center)

Ballroom A

SAFE Credit Union Convention Center

Poster Presentation MC5 – Beam Dynamics and EM Fields Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Chad Mitchell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Description

A major obstacle to collaboration on accelerator projects has been the sharing of lattice description files among modeling codes. To address this problem, a standardized lattice description called the Particle Accelerator Lattice Standard (PALS) is being developed. PALS development is a community-wide international effort involving accelerator physicists from multiple institutions. Along with the standard, interface packages written in commonly used languages will be developed.

The importance for developing PALS is due to the increase in scale and complexity of new machines bringing an ever greater need for global collaboration, as well as interfacing with the data-driven activities using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The proposed Particle Accelerator Lattice Standard aims to promote: (i) portability between applications, (ii) a unified open-access description for scientific data (publishing and archiving), (iii) a unified description for post-processing, visualization and analysis. We will present an introduction to the effort, an overview of the standard, examples of applications, and discuss plans and future involvements from the community.

Footnotes

PALS links:
- Repository: https://github.com/campa-consortium/pals
- Documentation: https://pals-project.readthedocs.io

Funding Agency

Supported by the US National Science Foundation under award No. 2342336 and the US Department of Energy under contracts No. DE-SC0025351, DE-SC0024287, DE-AC02-05CH1123, and DOE SciDAC CAMPA project.

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Authors

Dr Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Chad Mitchell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Christopher Mayes (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Daniel Kallendorf (GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research) Dr Daniel Winklehner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Dr David Bruhwiler (RadiaSoft (United States)) Dr David Sagan (Cornell University) Dr Edoardo Zoni (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Ji Qiang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Matthew Signorelli (Cornell University (CLASSE)) Yue Hao (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams)

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