BDSIM Documentation

User Manual

• Manual (HTML)
• Manual (PDF)

User Manual (develop branch)

• Develop Branch Manual (HTML)

Python Utilities

• pybdsim manual (HTML)
• pymadx manual (HTML)
• pymad8 manual (HTML)
• pytransport manual (HTML)

Developer Documentation

• Doxygen documentation - class hierarchy and data structures
• Doxygen documentation - class hierarchy and data structures - develop branch
• Git repository statistics

Version History

The version history is now included in the online manual.

BDSIM papers

• CLIC-Note 2002 - Simulation of the CLIC Beam Delivery System using BDSIM
• EuroTeV 2006 - The BDSIM toolkit
• EPAC06 - BDSIM - Beamline Simulation Toolkit Based on Geant4
• EPAC06 - Benchmarking of Tracking Codes (BDSIM/DIMAD) using the ILC Extraction Lines
• NIMA 2009 - BDSIM: A particle tracking code for accelerator beam-line simulations including particle-matter interactions
• IBIC13 - Beam Delivery Simulation (BDSIM): a Geant4 based toolkit for diagnostic and loss simulation
• IPAC14 - Beam Delivery Simulation: BDSIM - Development & Optimisation

Some non-exhaustive list of applied papers

Authors	Title	Conference/Journal	Year
G. Blair	Simulation of Laser-wires at CLIC using BDSIM	Nanobeam	2002
J. Carter et al.	Simulation of the ILC Collimation System Using BDSIM, MARS15 and STRUCT	EPAC	2006
J. Carter et al.	International linear collider simulations using BDSIM	Pramana	2007
S. Malton et al.	Simulation of beam Halo in CLIC Collimation Systems	EPAC	2008
L. Deacon et al.	Simulation study of laser-wires as a post-linac diagnostic for CLIC and ILC	EPAC	2008
L. Deacon et al.	Laser Wire Simulation in the ILC Beam Delivery System	EuroTeV	2008
L. Deacon	A Micron-Scale Laser-Based Beam Profile Monitor for the International Linear Collider	Doctoral thesis	2009
I. Agapov et al.	Tracking studies of the Compact Linear Collider collimation system	PRSTAB	2009
H. Burkhardt et al.	Muon backgrounds in CLIC	IPAC	2010
L. Deacon	Updates to the CLIC post-collision line	IPAC	2012
F. Belgin et al.	CLIC Muon Sweeper Design	ArXiv	2016