PARMILA documentation

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has produced a new manual for the program PARMILA. This paper is about that manual and includes only a small amount of material on the code itself. The manual is both a users and reference manual and will be of help to a programmer who needs to modify the code, though perhaps not as much help as would be desired. PARMILA has been in use for more than 20 years. It is widely used and there are many versions. The name PARMILA is an acronym for Phase And Radial Motion In Linear Accelerators, (or, more recently, ... in Ion Linear Accelerators). The code is a drift-tube linac ion beam dynamics code and does multiparticle simulations. A very good description of one version of the code was given in 1988 by G.P. Boicourt, coauthor of the manual being described. Here the author will briefly describe the codes functions, referring the reader to the earlier report for further detail. This paper provides a description of a users and reference manual for the AT-6 version of the code PARMILA