diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e8f4e1b..91d3fc3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,24 +3,22 @@ Numerical practical (Travaux Pratiques, or TP) for the Master M2 - Grands Instru The case study, simulated with the Particle in Cell (PIC) code Smilei, is a set-up of laser-plasma acceleration with external injection of a relativistic electron bunch. At first, only the propagation of an intense laser pulse in vacuum is simulated. Afterwards, the plasma is added, to study the generation of plasma waves. Finally, a relativistic electron bunch is added and injected in the plasma wave, to be accelerated. -The exercises introduce the physics of the considered set-up, teach some sanity checks to compare the code results with theory and introduce the basic postprocessing of interest for PIC simulations of plasma acceleration. +The exercises introduce the physics of the considered set-up, teach how to compare the code results with analytical theory when possible and introduce the basic postprocessing of interest for PIC simulations of plasma acceleration. -Following is an animation of the first laser wakefield acceleration simulation in the practical. +Following is an animation of the first laser wakefield acceleration case study of the practical. The laser pulse (envelope of the electric field depicted in red) excites a relativistic plasma wave, whose electronic density is shown with a blue-white volume rendering. The white particles represent the relativistic electron bunch that is injected and accelerated in the plasma wave. ![LWFA_TP_M2-GI](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/9608804/191453308-a7670636-b676-4b1f-a1b4-dbf6b81d895a.gif) -# List of contents -- folder `Answers_Form`, which contains the form to submit the answers to the practical exercises. -- folder `Handouts`, which contains the course handouts, to be built with LaTeX. To complete the practical, solve the exercises in this file and fill the answer form. -- folder `Instructions_Cluster`, which contains the instructions to compile the code, run and postprocess simulations. The file is built with LaTeX -- folder `Postprocessing_Scripts`, which contains some Python scripts to analyze the laser pulse propagation, the plasma wave generation and the electron bunch properties. -- folder `ScriptSetEnvironment`, with a bash script to load the libraries and variable definitions to build Smilei on the cluster. -- file `InputNamelist.py`, in Python, to run the simulations of the practical. -- file `submission_script.sh`, a slurm job submission script to run the practical's simulations on the cluster. +# List of contents of the TP folders and files +- folder `Answers_Form`: the form to submit the answers to the practical exercises. +- folder `doc`: the course handouts including the exercises and useful postprocessing commands. +- folder `Postprocessing_Scripts`: some Python scripts to analyze the laser pulse propagation, the plasma wave generation and the electron bunch properties. +- file `InputNamelist.py`: the input file in Python, to run the simulations of the practical. +- file `submission_script.sh`: the slurm job submission script to run the practical's simulations on the cluster. ### Acknowledgements