•Introduction

This notebook generates the optics Web pages for the LHC.   For a given configuration all the Web pages and associated data files are collected as a directory with a default/index Web page.

If you are reading the Web version of this notebook (which is just an HTML image and may not reflect the latest changes), you can download the latest version of the source notebook.  This notebook also provides a convenient way to generate structured MAD input files for the LHC.

Before trying to evaluate any cells in this notebook, please read the section about packages and the section about the Mathematica kernel in the Setup section below.

By an optics Version, we mean a complete version of the LHC optics, based on a given layout of elements (e.g. LHC Version 6.2).

By a Configuration, we mean a given set of power supply settings and beam parameters for a Version, e.g., the Injection configuration.

As an aid to using this notebook in production mode, section headings and input cells can be divided into the following classes:

Initialisation cells: these should be evaluated automatically (or after a prompt) at startup.

Blue cells (headings of sections containing blue cells are also blue), to be evaluated once for each optics Version

Green cells (headings of sections containing green cells are also green), to be evaluated once for each Configuration within the Version

Other cells are incidental, related to development, illustration or debugging.

Obviously we could have tried to do everything in a one-liner but it makes more sense to break the process up a bit at the human level and also makes it easier to add other pieces.  In fact, it would make sense to split this notebook into one which generates cleanly structured MAD input files for the LHC and another which generates Web pages.

Converted by Mathematica  (December 6, 2002)