REDPIC documentation

Relativistic Difference Scheme Particles-In-Cell (REDPIC)

This PIC code has been developed since 2022 as an alternative to ASTRA, WARP, XTRACK and other codes.

For particle dynamics simulation using finite difference scheme relativistic.

Contents of the documentation

If you are new to REDPIC, we strongly recommend that you read the section Tutorial first, so as to have a basic understanding of what the code does.

You can then see the section Installation and Tutorial, to get started with using REDPIC.

• Theory
• Installation
• Tutorial
• Test
• Performance

Contributing to REDPIC

REDPIC is open-source, and the source code is hosted here, on Github.

We welcome contributions to the code!

Research & Attribution

REDPIC was developed by Vyacheslav Fedorov and Danila Nikiforov.

REDPIC’s algorithms are documented in the manual.