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Hi,

I use RFCA to model a RF cavity and track with a given distribution.
However, I receive the error messages saying that "can't treat cavities like drifts when CHANGE_P0=1".

Setting "CHANGE_P0=0" works fine.

Is there anything that I missed in my elegant script ?
I attach files for your reference.

This is discussed on the manual page for twiss_output. The basic issue is that if matched=1 (the default), we are typically looking at a storage ring, in which case it makes sense to treat the rf cavities as drift spaces for the purpose of finding the twiss parameters. In a linac, this makes less sense, so the condition is flagged. You can set cavities_are_drifts_if_matched = 0 to force use of the actual matrix for the rf cavities.

--Michael