Documentation

Manuals

The SixTrack manuals consists of a user manual for setting up and running simulations, a build manual for compiling SixTrack from source, and a physics manual. The manuals are provided in both PDF and HTML format. The HTML version of the manuals are generated from LaTeX source, and may therefore contain formatting errors.

SixTrack User Manual

• HTML Version [Version 5.x]
• PDF Version [Version 5.x]
• PDF Version [Version 4.7.16]

SixDesk User Manual

• HTML Version
• PDF Version

Physics Manual

• PDF Version

Build Manual

• For 4.x: PDF Version
• For 5.x: GitHub Document

Physics References and Code Development

• 1985, Non-Linear canonical equations of coupled synchro-betatron motion..., G. Ripken, DESY 85-084; assuming v=c.
• 1987, A non-linear canonical formalism for the coupled synchro-betatron motion, D.P. Barber, G. Ripken and F. Schmidt, Desy 87-036; thin/thick maps assuming v=beta*c.
• 1995, A Symplectic Six-Dimensional Thin-Lens Formalism for Tracking, G. Ripken,F. Schmidt; CERN SL-95-012; Thin element maps.
• 1995, Construction of Nonlinear symplectic Six-Dimensional Thin-Lens Formalism by Exponentiation., K. Heinemann, G. Ripken, F. Schmidt; Exact drift.
• 1996, Symplectic Thin-Lens Transfer Maps for SIXTRACK...; D.P. Barber, K. Heinemann, G. Ripken, F. Schmidt; Exact thin bend.
• 2001, 6D Beam-Beam Kick including Coupled Motion, L.H.A. Leunissen, F. Schmidt,G. Ripken.
• 2013, Particle Tracking in Circular Accelerators Using the Exact Hamiltonian in SixTrack, M. Fjellstrom.
• 2016, Symplectic Tracking of Multi-Isotopic Heavy-Ion Beams in SixTrack, P. Hermes, R. Bruce, R. De Maria.
• 2017, 6D beam-beam interaction step-by-step, G. Iadarola, R. De Maria, Y. Papaphilippou.
• 2018, Dynamic Simulations in SixTrack, K. Sjobak, V.K. Berglyd Olsen, R. De Maria, M. Fitterer, A. Santamaría García, H. Garcia-Morales, A. Mereghetti, J.F. Wagner, S.J. Wretborn.
• 2019, Generalised Scattering Module in SixTrack 5, K. N. Sjobak, V. K. Berglyd Olsen , H. Burkhardt, R. De Maria.

Useful References

• 2006, Geometric Integration for Particle Accelerators, E. Forest, KEK Preprint 2005-107. Historical overview of single particle tracking.
• 2002, Introduction to the polymorphic tracking code E. Forest, KEK Report 2002-3. Physics of PTC and references to SixTrack methods.
• 1997, Symplectic Integration, Z. Parsa, E. Forest. Inclusion of radiation.
• 1990, Construction of higher order symplectic integrators, H. Yoshida, Phys. Lett. A 150 (5–7): 262. Arbitrary order integrators from solvable maps.
• 1992, A Symplectic Beam-Beam Interaction with Energy Change, SLAC-PUB-10055, KEK Preprint 92-117. Synchro betatron mapping for head-on beam beam effects.
• 1988, Methods of Beam Optics, F. Willeke, G. Ripken, DESY 88-114. Fully coupled formalism.
• 1980, Closed expression for the electrical field of a two-dimensional Gaussian charge, M. Bassetti, A. Erskine, CERN-ISR-TH-80-06. 4D beam beam kick.

Theses

• 2014, Particle Tracking in Circular Accelerators Using the Exact Hamiltonian in SixTrack, M. Fjellstrom.