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Posted: **31 Jan 2021, 23:46**

Hello,
My name is Anton.

I am starting to use Elegant and as the first step I want to compare tracking results of Elegant and MADX.
Here are a lattice file, elegant script and a plot of phase trajectories for two particles.

I understand the calculated horizontal phase trajectories, damping is visible, but longitudinal trajectories are mystery.
Cdelta versus dCt should have been a closed curve (an ellipse), but it is not. I found several topics on forum and I think I did everything what was advised.
Am I using the wrong coordinates (Cdelta,dCt) for longitudinal motion? What variables should I use?

Here is the version of elegant

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This is elegant 2020.5, Dec 11 2020, by M. Borland, J. Calvey, M. Carla', N. Carmignani, M. Ehrlichman, L. Emery, W. Guo, R. Lindberg, V. Sajaev, R. Soliday, Y.-P. Sun, C.-X. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Wu, and A. Xiao.
=====================================================================================
Thanks for using elegant.  Please cite the following reference in your publications:
  M. Borland, "elegant: A Flexible SDDS-Compliant Code for Accelerator Simulation,"
  Advanced Photon Source LS-287, September 2000.
If you use a modified version, please indicate this in all publications.
=====================================================================================

The second question is about pelegant.
On windows 10 I run pelegant like

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 mpiexec -n 16 pelegant run-track.ele

The program runs, twiss is calculated but %s.w1 file is not created.
I have a 16 core machine. What is the right way of running pelegant on windows 10.

Thank you,
Anton

Posted: **01 Feb 2021, 19:38**

Hi Anton,

Regarding your first question, you can plot Cdelta vs. Ct to get the ellipse (spirally inward due to radiation damping) you expected. This is because you set "CHANGE_T=1" of the RF element, according to the manual, the time coordinates of the particles is modified to subtract off NTrf , where Ttf is the rf period and N = ⌊t∕Ttf + 0.5. Instead, if you set "CHANGE_T=0", then plottingg Cdelta vs dCt would get want you wanted.

Best,

Zhe

Posted: **02 Feb 2021, 04:01**

Thank you Zhe.

So, if I use "centroid" mode of watch element and CHANGE_T=0 of RFCA then plotting Cdelta versus Ct does give me an ellipse. I tried it and it works.

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 w1: watch,filename="results/ct_ring.w1",mode="centroid"
RF: RFCA, L=0.01, VOLT=3.4e6, phase=180, FREQ=3.505013298676E8, CHANGE_T=0

I do not understand the mode "coordinates" of watch element. After running elegant with this mode the %s.w1 file contains columns

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8 columns of data:
NAME            UNITS           SYMBOL          FORMAT          TYPE    FIELD  DESCRIPTION
                                                                        LENGTH
x               m               NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
xp              NULL            NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
y               m               NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
yp              NULL            NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
t               s               NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
p               m$be$nc         NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
dt              s               NULL            NULL            double  0       NULL
particleID      NULL            NULL            NULL            long    0       NULL

The column p is $\beta\gamma$ of the particle and t is in seconds, and there are no coordinates Cdelta and Ct.
If I want phase-space trajectories of individual particles which mode do I use?

Another question is related to pelegant.
I want to simulate phase-space trajectories of 1024 particles.
I simply tried in windows power shell

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mpiexec -n 16 pelegant run-track.ele

but %s.w1 file is not created. Is there a way to do it?

Respectfully,
Anton

Posted: **02 Feb 2021, 04:18**

Hi Anton,

If you want phase-space trajectories of individual particles, it is better to use the "coordinates" mode, using "CHANGE_T=0", now t is the absolute accumulated time when a particle arrives at the WATCH element, and dt is the particle's arrival time at the WATCH element, relative to the reference/fiducial particle. You then need to postprocess the result to obtain delta = "p / pCentral - 1", for example you could execute the following command to generate a new file including a column delta. In this way you could plot dt vs delta.

sddsprocess results/ct_ring.w1 results/ct_ring.w1_new -define=col,delta,"p pCentral / 1 -"

Regarding your second question, I'm not a Windows user so I'm sorry you might need to wait for others' suggestions.

Best,

Zhe

Posted: **02 Feb 2021, 04:50**

Thank you, Zhe.

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