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Use Case: A beamline physicist will provide MAD, Parmela or Elegant files 3 #ref_latticefiles. Some designated person will update the Oracle DB with relevant information from these files, and run some process (presumably a SQL script) which outputs an XAL lattice input file in XML - the file containing the lattice description of the machine (See questions). Given this input lattice file, software in the XAL package library can then be used by applications to compute optics (Twiss, R-matrices, etc), which they can then use to calculate bumps, orbit corrections, beta-match settings etc.
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- XAL http://www.sns.gov/APGroup/appProg/xal/xal.htm
- XML entry in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML
LCLS lattice files http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/lcls/linac/optics/Anchor ref_latticefiles ref_latticefiles - JAMA http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/
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