Surface Field Optimization of Accelerating Structures for CLIC Using ACE3P on Remote Computing Facility

This paper presents a computer program for searching for the optimum shape of an accelerating structure cell by scanning a multidimensional geometry parameter space. For each geometry, RF parameters and peak surface fields are calculated using ACE3P on a remote high-performance computational system. Parameter point selection, mesh generation, result storage and post-analysis are handled by a GUI program running on the user’s workstation. This paper describes the program, AcdOptiGui. AcdOptiGui also includes some capability for automatically selecting scan points based on results from earlier simulations, which enables rapid optimization of a given parameterized geometry. The software has previously been used as a part of the design process for accelerating structures for a 500 GeV CLIC.