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Documentation

MAD-X documentation

• MAD-X user's guide.
  MAD-X user's guide Web
• MAD-X examples.
• Ndiff manual.

• MAD-X primer.
• MAD-X tutorial.
• MAD-X another tutorial.

• PTC an introduction (PDF).
• PTC reference manual (and the PDF from HTML).
• PTC library user's guide (PDF), currently in preparation.
• FPP reference manual.

• References.
• Bibliography (with links to documents).

MAD-9 documentation

• User's guide (PDF).

MAD-8 documentation

• User's guide (PDF).
• Physics guide (PDF).
• Developer's guide (PDF).

Reports, papers and talks

• Accelerators for pedestrians, S. Baird, 2007.
• Computational Methods for Accelerator Beam Phycics, W. Herr, 2011.
• Symplecticity in Beam Dynamics: An Introduction, J.R. Rees, 2003.
• A First- and Second-Order Matrix Theory for the Design of Beam Transport Systems and Charged Particle Spectrometers, K. L. Brown, 1982.
• Normalization of the Parameterized Courant-Snyder Matrix for Symplectic Factorization of a Parameterized Taylor Map, Y. Van, 1991.
• Third-Order TRANSPORT with MAD Input: A Computer Program for Designing Charged Particle Beam Transport Systems, D. C. Carrey, K. L. Brown and F. Rothacker, 1998.

CERN Accelerator School

• Intermediate Course on Accelerator Physics, 2003.
• Basic Course on General Accelerator Physics, 2000.
• Advanced Course on Accelerator Physics, 1995.
• General Course on Accelerator Physics, 1994.
• Advanced Course on Accelerator Physics, 1992.
• General Course on Accelerator Physics, 1990.

• CERN Accelerator School website.

Accelerator physics books

• Introduction to Particle Physics Accelerator, K. Wille, 2001.
• An Introduction to Particle Accelerators, E. J. N. Wilson, 2001.
• The Principles of Circular Accelerators and Storage Rings, P. J. Bryant and K. Johnsen, 2005.
• Particle Accelerator Physics, H. Wiedemann, 2007.
• Accelerator Physics, S. Y. Lee, 2004.
• Handbook of Accelerator Physics and Engineering, A. Chao, 1999.
• Comtemporary Accelerator Physics, S. I. Tzenov, 2004.
• Beam Dynamics, A New Attitude and Framework, E. Forest, 1998.

Accelerator physics online books

• Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, S. Humphries Jr., 1986, PDF.
• Fundamental of Beam Physics, J. B. Rosenzweig, 2003, PDF.
• Lie Methods for Nonlinear Dynamics with Applications to Accelerator Physics, A. J. Dragt, unfinished, PDF.

Other interesting links

• Werner Herr lectures, many of them are in the CAS proceedings (but not all).
• Oliver Bruning lectures, some of them are in the CAS proceedings (but not all).
• Andy Wolski lectures, some of them are in the CAS proceedings (but not all).