EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH
(This draft is provided because parts of it may be useful.
It should NOT be relied upon as a complete
and definitive guide to MAD Version 9.)
F. Christoph Iselin
MAD is a tool for charged-particle optics in alternating-gradient accelerators and beam lines. It can handle very large and very small accelerators and solves various problems on such machines. MAD Version 9 is based on the CLASSIC class library, which was started in 1995 by an international collaboration.
The MAD framework makes it easy to add new features in the form of new C++ classes. The authors of MAD hope that such classes will also be contributed and documented by others. The contributions of other authors are acknowledged in the relevant chapters.
This manual is constantly being updated and corrected so any printed copy is almost certainly out-of-date. The latest version of this manual and many other resources are available at the MAD Home Page
http://cern.ch/mad/
This page provides the channel for reports of bugs in the program, errors in the documentation and other comments.
The MAD program is under copyright by CERN.
Geneva, Switzerland
April 14, 2000