A USER FRIENDLY, MODULAR SIMULATION TOOL FOR LASER- ELECTRON INTERACTIONS*

The code RadTrack was developed to accurately model observable beam parameters in real laboratory environments RadTrack is a fast, reliable computational application that can calculate radiation observables in complex interactions between realistic laser and electron beam distributions. The interaction between laser and electron beams is important in processes such as inverse Compton scattering and inverse free electron laser schemes. Modeling these interactions, RadTrack incorporates functions from Synchrotron Radiation Workshop (SRW) with full parsing support to capitalize on well-established radiation generation and propagation code available for start-to-end simulations, while expanding simulated radiation to x-ray regimes [1]. RadTrack is based on the Python environment, which uses a hierarchal module system and possesses built-in data types that will allow further expansions of the code. The code provides an intuitive visualization work canvas that emphasizes the users overall objective.