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Description
RF-Track is a particle-tracking code developed at CERN for the simulation, design, and optimisation of particle accelerators. The code incorporates spin tracking and a broad range of single-particle and collective effects relevant to future linear colliders and their injector complexes. These include space-charge forces, short- and long-range wakefields, beam loading in standing- and travelling-wave structures, synchrotron-radiation emission, beam–beam interactions, and intrabeam scattering. Its ability to model overlapping and arbitrarily oriented elements also enables the realistic simulation of complex systems such as positron sources and capture sections. RF-Track is implemented in optimised, parallel C++ and provides Python and Octave interfaces, facilitating integration into accelerator-design and optimisation workflows. It has been applied to a wide variety of systems, including the CLIC and FCC-ee positron sources, high-intensity injector linacs, and photoinjectors. This contribution will present the main concepts and capabilities of RF-Track, highlight recent developments, and illustrate selected applications relevant to the modelling of future linear colliders.