LIDOS RFQ Designer

A Complete RFQ Linac Beam Dynamics Design Environment

The LIDOS RFQ Designer software package was developed specifically for the design and analysis of radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) accelerators. The LIDOS RFQ Designer contains three different modules or levels: (1) Advisor, (2) Modeler, and (3) Simulator. It is a Windows-based application that includes an advanced version of the RFQ module of the original LIDOS Advisor, but also allows for additional RFQ design and analysis capabilities.

Features

• The "Advisor," or RFQ Designer Level 1 Advisor, allows the user to make preliminary data analysis and to calculate the main parameters. Features of the "Advisor" include the following capabilities:
  • To set linac parameters
  • To plot variations of intervane voltage, synchronous phase, bore radius, and modulation factor
  • To calculate cell lengths
  • To simulate beam motion in the frame of ideal RF approximation
  • To estimate RF losses in copper and RF supply parameters
• The "Modeler," or RFQ Designer Level 2 Modeler, generates parameters for real vane shape descriptions. In addition, this level also allows the user to find the input beam optimal size and convergence.
• Finally, the "Simulator," or RFQ Designer Level 3 Simulator, allows the user to simulate beam motion while taking into account the real vane shape, gaps between cavity sections, fringe fields, Crandall cell, etc.

Professional Version Available
The LIDOS RFQ Designer Professional includes all of the above executable modules together with the their complete source code.

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