SIMION Day User’s Meeting 2015 at GANIL

The following slides and papers are from SIMION Day User’s Meeting at GANIL (France), 11 June 2015, where users across France shared tips and experiences on many aspects of SIMION.

• “Welcome,” by Laurent MAUNOURY and Pierre (GANIL)
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• “Real-time beam profiles using SIMION and gnuplot,” by Jimmy RANGAMA (CIMAP)
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  also related: SIMION Example: gnuplot (different approach using pipes, whereas above uses plain files)
  
• “Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in SIMION,” by Eric GIGLIO (CIMAP)
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  also related: Dirichlet Boundary Conditions; Neumann Boundary Condition
  
• “SIMION applied to ECR ion sources,” by Pierre SALOU (Pantechnik)
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• “Ion trajectory simulations for the design of a compact electrostatic ion storage ring: the Mini-Ring,” by Jerome BERNARD (Lyon)
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• “TOF spectrometer / multiple-electrode devices,” by Alain MERY (CIMAP)
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  also related: Grid, Additional Fast Proportional Scaling Solutions; SIMION Example: tof
  
• “Using Simplex method for ion trap optimization,” by Pierre CHAUVEAU (GANIL)
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  also related: Optimization
  
• “Ion-atom interactions in a gas jet: coupling of a gas catcher to a linear RFQ cooler,” by Emil TRAYKOV (IPHC)
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  also related: Ion-Gas Collisions
  
• “Drift field in particle detectors,” by Samuel DAMOY (GANIL)
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  also related: SIMION Example: poisson/static_charge
  

These materials are republished by permission of Laurent Maunoury at GANIL.