Design Studies with DEMIRCI for SPP RFQ

TL;DR

DEMIRCI is a modern, object-oriented software tool developed in C++ with a graphical and command line interface for designing RFQs, improving upon legacy software by offering better usability and compatibility for accelerator design.

Contribution

It introduces DEMIRCI, a new RFQ design software built from scratch using C++ and CERN's ROOT library, with enhanced user interface and interoperability features.

Findings

DEMIRCI successfully reproduces reference design parameters of SPP RFQ.

The software demonstrates compatibility with similar existing RFQ design tools.

DEMIRCI offers a user-friendly graphical interface and batch processing capabilities.

Abstract

To design a Radio Frequency Quadrupole (RFQ) is a onerous job which requires a good understanding of all the main parameters and the relevant calculations. Up to the present there are only a few software packages performing this task in a reliable way. These legacy software, though proven in time, could benefit from the modern software development tools like Object Oriented (OO) programming. In this note, a new RFQ design software, DEMIRCI is introduced. It is written entirely from scratch using C++ and based on CERN's OO ROOT library. It has a friendly graphical user interface and also a command line interface for batch calculations. It can also interact by file exchange with similar software in the field. After presenting the generic properties of DEMIRCI, its compatibility with similar software packages is discussed based on the results from the reference design parameters of SPP (SNRTC Project Prometheus), a demonstration accelerator at Ankara, Turkey.