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Accelerator and Element Description

As mentioned in the introduction, elegant uses a variant of the MAD input format for describing accelerators. With some exceptions, the accelerator description for one program can be read by the other with no modification. Among the differences:

elegant's print_dictionary command allows the user to obtain a list of names and short descriptions of all accelerator elements recognized by the program, along with the names, units, types, and default values of all parameters of each element. The present output of this command is listed in the next section. The reader is referred to the MAD manual[2] for details on sign conventions for angles, focusing strength, and so forth.


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Michael Borland 2001-06-08