Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The nonlinear space-charge effects are an important topic in high intensity accelerator beam dynamics and have been extensively studied using macroparticle tracking simulations. In this paper, we report on recent advances in the simulation of space-charge effects using a symplectic multiparticle space-charge model. The transverse space-charge limit was explored for a periodic focusing and defocusing lattice. The artificial numerical emittance growth in the macroparticle space-charge simulation was analyzed using a one-dimensional model.