Speaker
Lars Fröhlich
(DESY / EUXFEL)
Description
This contribution gives an overview of two activities regarding "digital twins" of the European XFEL accelerator. The first one is the operation and enhancement of the Virtual XFEL, a clone of the machine control system for testing mid- and high-level software. Using a custom physics simulation written in C++, the Virtual XFEL performs single-particle and envelope tracking in realtime. The second part of the presentation gives an overview of start-to-end simulation methods that attempt to reproduce the physics of electron beam transport in much more detail at the cost of increased computation time.
