http://xvallspl.github.io/tags/accelerator-physics/ Recent content in Accelerator Physics on Xavier Valls Pla Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 23 May 2016 09:45:00 +0200 http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/sixdeskdb/ Mon, 23 May 2016 09:45:00 +0200 http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/sixdeskdb/ This article is part of a short series adapted from my Bachelor's thesis on post-processing routines for long-term beam stability in particle accelerators. Some of the implementation details below reflect SixDesk/SixDeskDB as they stood in 2015-16 and may not match their current state. The previous article in this series walked through postpr, SixTrack's Fortran post-processing subroutine, and the pile of interdependent Bash, AWK and Fortran scripts SixDesk wraps around it to turn a full dynamic-aperture study into a handful of plots. http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/sixtrack/ Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:00:00 +0200 http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/sixtrack/ This article is part of a short series adapted from my Bachelor's thesis on post-processing routines for long-term beam stability in particle accelerators. The previous article in this series laid out the coordinate systems, Hamiltonian mechanics and beam optics used to describe a particle's motion in an accelerator. http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/beam-dynamics/ Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:30:00 +0100 http://xvallspl.github.io/blog/cern/beam-dynamics/ This article is part of a short series adapted from my Bachelor's thesis on post-processing routines for long-term beam stability in particle accelerators. Accelerators have become a key tool for the study of experimental particle physics. Today, thousands of physicists around the world depend on the results generated by the Large Hadron Collider.