The application of the SXF lattice description and the UAL software environment to the analysis of the LHC

Author

Fischer, W. ; Pilat, F. ; Ptitsin, V.

Author_Institution

Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Upton, NY, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

2716

Abstract

A software environment for accelerator modeling has been developed which includes the UAL (Unified Accelerator Library), a collection of accelerator physics libraries with a Perl interface for scripting, and the SXF (Standard eX-change Format), a format for accelerator description which extends the MAD sequence by including deviations from design values. SXF interfaces have been written for several programs, including MAD9 and MAD8 via the doom database, Cosy, TevLat and UAL itself, which includes Teapot++. After an overview of the software we describe the application of the tools to the analysis of the LHC lattice stability, in the presence of alignment and coupling errors, and to the correction of the first turn and closed orbit in the machine

Keywords

colliding beam accelerators; particle beam dynamics; particle beam stability; physics computing; proton accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; Cosy; LHC; LHC lattice stability; MAD sequence; Perl interface; SXF lattice description; Teapot++; TevLat; UAL software environment; Unified Accelerator Library; accelerator description; accelerator physics libraries; alignment; closed orbit; coupling errors; first turn; Application software; Databases; Large Hadron Collider; Lattices; Physics; Software libraries; Software standards; Software tools; Stability analysis; Standards development;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999

Conference_Location

New York, NY

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5573-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1999.792914

Filename

792914