description:sddsanalyzebeam analyzes a beam of macro-particles and produces an SDDS file
containing beam moments, emittances, equivalent beta functions, etc. The beam file
is of the type written by elegant using the output field of the run_setup
command, or the WATCH element.
inputfile -- An SDDS file containing the columns x, xp, y,
yp, t, and p, giving the six phase-space coordinates for a set of macroparticles.
This file can be produced from elegant, for example, using the output field of the run_setup
command, the bunch field of the bunched_beam command, or the WATCH element in
coordinate mode.
outputfile -- An SDDS file containing columns giving
moments, emittances, equivalent Twiss parameters, and so on, for the
macro-particles. Each row of this file corresponds to a page of the
input file. The names and meanings of the columns are identical to
what is used for elegant's final output file from the run_setup command. The file from elegant, however, stores the
results as parameters instead of columns; to convert outputfile
to that convention, use the SDDS toolkit program sddsexpand.
