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MAD9 Home Page

MAD (originally Methodical Accelerator Design) is a program widely used to design and calculate the properties of particle accelerators.

Version 9 is a complete re-design and re-write of the program started by Chris Iselin at CERN and based on the "Classic" library of C++ classes for accelerator physics. Development work has been carried out among:

BNL (J. Scott Berg), CERN
PSI (Andreas Adelmann ) and Tech-X.

Documentation for MAD Version 9

MAD Version 9 for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, ... is available from the download page
Important hint: if you are in doubt about the syntax of a MAD9 command, please note that typing

HELP,cmd;

at the MAD9 command prompt may give more reliable information than the present draft User's Guide. If you find a discrepancy, please report it anyway; this will help us remove errors.

Draft User's Guide (undergoing revision),
- HTML version: (table of contents)
- PDF Version (about 350 kB, includes thumbnails)
MAD-9 class structure (for programmers):
- HTML version (class documentation only)
- PDF version (1.8 MB, includes class diagrams and thumbnails)
- Compressed postscript version (0.32 MB, includes class diagrams)
Conversion Guide
New Features compared to MAD-8
Frequently asked questions
The bugs in MAD Version 9 ... and how you can help
A MAD-9 resources page
Some recent papers about MAD Version 9:
- Paper at EPAC 2000
- Experience with the Classic Library in MAD Version 9, F.C. Iselin, ICAP 1998

CLASSIC Documentation

Classic is a C++ class library for accelerator physics. Roughly speaking, the "physics" in MAD Version 9 is based upon it.

Distribution
CLASSIC class structure:
- HTML version (class documentation only)
- PDF version (1.8 MB, includes class diagrams and thumbnails)
- Compressed postscript version (0.4 MB, includes class diagrams)