ORNL, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
UTK, Knoxville, Tennessee
The computational approach is providing essential guidance and analysis for the commissioning and operation of SNS. Computational models are becoming sufficiently realistic that it is now possible to study detailed beam dynamics issues quantitatively. Increasingly, we are seeing that the biggest challenge in performing successful analyses is that of knowing and describing the machine and beam state accurately. Even so, successful benchmarks with both theoretical predictions and experimental results are leading to increased confidence in the capability of these models. With this confidence, computer codes are being employed in a predictive manner to guide the machine operations. We will illustrate these points with various examples taken from the SNS linac and ring.
