Warp PBA

Warp PBA is a Sirepo-based prototype for simulating beam-driven and laser-driven plasma wakes, with close-to-cylindrical symmetry. The Warp code is a particle-in-cell (PIC) framework designed to model high-current particle beams and plasmas and to support a wide variety of integrated physics models. The Sirepo applications supports a subset of these capabilities in an easy-to-use GUI. The code is primarily supported by David Grote, Jean-Luc Vay, Remi Lehe and other colleagues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Warp is part of the Berkeley Lab Accelerator Simulation Toolkit.

Sirepo/Warp PBA Examples (must be registered user to access examples)

• Electron Beam
• Electron Beam 2
• Laser Pulse

Warp Further References

• Berkeley Lab Accelerator Simulation Toolkit
• A. Friedman, R.H. Cohen, D.P. Grote, S.M. Lund, W.M. Sharp, J.-L. Vay, I. Haber and R.A. Kishek, "Computational Methods in the Warp Code Framework for Kinetic Simulations of Particle Beams and Plasmas," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 42, 1321 (2014).
• J.-L. Vay, D. P. Grote, R. H. Cohen, A. Friedman, "Novel Methods in the Particle-In-Cell Accelerator Code-Framework Warp," Comput. Sci. Disc. 5, 014019 (2012).
• J.L. Vay, C.G.R. Geddes, E. Cormier-Michel, D.P. Grote, "Numerical methods for instability mitigation in the modeling of laser wakefield accelerators in a lorentz-boosted frame", J. Comput. Phys. 230, 5908 (2011).

U.S. Department of Energy Support

• Sirepo development has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, under multiple awards. The 'Warp PBA' interface is supported by the Office of High Energy Physics under Award No. DE-SC0013855.