The MAD-X project

by Hans Grote (CERN/SL)

Thursday 7 Feb 2002, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

SL Auditorium (CERN)

The development of MAD8 has been suspended for many years. At the start of 2001 it was decided to revive it and put it into a more maintainable form since it is needed for the LHC during design and operation. In particular, the home grown dynamic data management in Fortran77 limits further extensions, and is not guaranteed to survive for another ten years. In fact, MAD-X has been originally planned to be a copy of MAD8 with a more modern data management. The data structures that hold the information about the accelerator, and the interfaces to the modules are written in C which provides the dynamic data structures needed. Contrary to MAD8, the MAD-X modules are designed as truly independent entities, much simpler and therefore better maintainable. The development of these modules is spread among several accelerator physicists.

Tea and coffee will be served at 15:30 in front of the Auditorium
Organiser(s): Werner Herr / SL Division

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