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EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH CERN – SL DIVISION CERN-SL-Note-99-061 AP slnote.tex Neutrino Factory Note ?? Histograms of MAD Tracking Results Eberhard Keil Abstract Two Fortran programs are described that process MAD tracking output for 104 or more particles, and produce histograms. The loshstprogram produces histograms of the par- ticle losses by turn and by position along the orbit. The trkhstprogram computes means and standard deviations of the particle positions in 6D phase space and the emittances in all three directions, and produces histograms of the particle distributions at the end of the MAD tracking run. Geneva, Switzerland December 16, 1999 1 INTRODUCTION In circular machines such as ELFE at CERN [1] and muon storage rings, the particles make a rather small number of turns. It then becomes possible to study their behaviour by tracking many particles. A typical number is 30000, close to the limit imposed by the ZEBRA space available in MAD [2]. Inspecting lists with such a large number of particles is impossible. I have therefore written two short Fortran programs that read the MAD output, and prepare histograms. They are described in the next two chapters. Section 4 describes how to track a large number of particles in a MAD run. 2 Program loshst The program loshst makes three histograms of the particle losses. The numbers below are the his- togram ID in HBOOK [3]. 1. Histogram of the particle losses as a function of the distance along the machine 2. Histogram of the particle losses as a function of the turn in