The Particle Beam Optics Interactive Computer Laboratory for personal computers and workstations

Author

Gillespie, George H. ; Hill, Barrey W. ; Martono, Hendy ; Moore, John M. ; Brown, Nathan A. ; Lampel, Michael C. ; Babcock, R. Chris

Author_Institution

G.H. Gillespie Associates Inc., Del Mar, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

12-16 May 1997

Firstpage

2562

Abstract

The Particle Beam Optics Interactive Computer Laboratory (PBO Lab) is a new software concept to aid both students and professionals in modeling charged particle beams and particle beam optical systems. The PBO Lab has been designed to run on several computer platforms and includes four key elements: (1) a graphic user interface shell, (2) a graphic beamline construction kit for users to interactively and visually construct optical beam lines, (3) a knowledge database on electric and magnetic optics elements, including interactive tutorials on the physics of charged particle optics and on the technology used in particle optics hardware, and (4) a set of charged particle optics computational engines that computes transport matrices, beam envelopes and trajectories, fits parameters to optical constraints, and carries out similar calculations for the graphically-defined beam lines

Keywords

beam handling equipment; beam handling techniques; computer aided instruction; engineering workstations; graphical user interfaces; high energy physics instrumentation computing; microcomputer applications; particle accelerators; particle beams; particle optics; PBO Lab; Particle Beam Optics Interactive Computer Laboratory; beam envelopes; beam trajectories; charged particle beams modeling; electric optics elements; graphic beamline construction kit; graphic user interface shell; interactive tutorials; magnetic optics elements; optical beam lines; optical constraints; particle accelerators; particle beam optical systems; personal computers; professionals; software concept; students; transport matrices; workstations; Computer graphics; Computer interfaces; Laboratories; Optical beams; Optical computing; Optical design; Particle beam optics; Particle beams; Physics computing; Structural beams;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1997. Proceedings of the 1997

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4376-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1997.751274

Filename

751274