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Description
The Extreme Photonics Application Centre (EPAC) will house a 1 PW, 10 Hz repetition rate laser: performing laser-plasma experiments for both academic and industrial communities. Accurate modelling of the laser, of the laser-plasma interaction, and of radiation propagation is essential for experiment design in large-scale user facilities, where access to the beam is highly sought after. To address this, we are building a toolkit, vEPAC, which aims to leverage existing open-source simulation tools and combine them with an intuitive wrapper to perform start-to-end simulations for a number of applications. We will present the design approach for this toolkit, along with test cases showing beam tracking of an LWFA output and radiography with a simulated source.
