Objective: Establish standardized methods for connecting diverse data sources across domains to enable seamless integration and automation in accelerator modeling.
Conventions: Define protocols for data capture, identification, representation, and usage.
Roles & Responsibilities: Clarify accountability—who performs tasks and who verifies outputs.
Daily Integration: Embed practices ensuring data is interconnected, validated, and accessible immediately upon entry.
Aim to fully automate data connections for accelerator models:
Automatically monitor key folders and extract relevant information into sequence files.
Fidél Integration Status: Currently excluded from core systems but available in WISE. Beam team models are limited to magnet length and strength, creating significant accuracy gaps.
Installation database (layout + MEB slot allocation).
Warm magnetic measurement (MM) database.
Cold MM database.
Geometry measurement database.
Incorporate nominal LHC sequence and optics definitions.
Key Goal: Evolve beyond nominal + Fidél models toward higher-fidelity representations. Assess impacts on beam stability iterations, convergence rates, and overall model precision.
Priority Agreement: Standardize conventions and file formats first—this unlocks efficient database management for beam dynamics teams.
Draft document specifying requirements, commitments, conventions, and timeline.
Develop enhanced Fidél+ model for immediate implementation.