Half-year progress report FY92/93 NRL HIFAR research program, August 1, 1992--June 31, 1993

Progress during this reporting period has been in several areas. The research effort has continued in close collaboration with personnel at LBL and LLNL. In addition, studies of the longitudinal physics, which are jointly supported by the Division of High Energy Physics of the U.S. Department of Energy, have benefitted from collaboration with personnel at the University of Maryland associated with the Maryland transport experiment. The research results supported by this program have been, and will be, actively reported to the scientific community through papers presented at conferences and published in conference proceedings as well as in the refereed literature. The first of these references describe work primarily supported under the current contract, while the remaining references describe work jointly supported by the Division of High Energy Physics. Progress detailed in these manuscripts, currently in preparation, will be included in a later report. The emphasis below is instead concentrated on reporting work, in cooperation with LBL, on the simulation of large aperture quadrupoles, with a further emphasis on the NRL contribution. This work is concentrated on understanding the basic nonlinear physics which is important to the design of large aperture magnetic quadrupoles, as well as the numerical requirements for reliable simulations of that physics. In particular, comparisons between the SHIFT-XY and HIFI simulation codes are presented to determine the conditions under which the HIFI code, which is faster running, but is generally run using less accuracy in the space charge model than SHIFT-XY, can be appropriately employed