${\tt ALaDyn}$: A High-Accuracy PIC Code for the Maxwell–Vlasov Equations
C. Benedetti(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna), A. Sgattoni(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna), G. Turchetti(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna), P. Londrillo
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Abstract
In this paper, we present acceleration by laser and dynamics of charged particles (ALaDyn), a particle-in-cell code, to investigate the interaction of a laser pulse with a preformed plasma and/or an externally injected beam. The code, fully parallelized, works in 1D, 2D, and 3D Cartesian geometry, and it is based on compact high-order finite-difference schemes ensuring higher spectral accuracy. We discuss the features, the performances, and the validation tests of the code. We finally present a preliminary application on a physically relevant case based on the PLASMON-X experiment of the CNR-INFN.