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Dr. KEVIN B. BEARD

Dr. Kevin B. Beard

works for Muons, Inc., and used to work for the FEL at TJNAF and still unofficially supports the LIPSS dark matter experiment

[old obsolete webpage]

  • email: beard@jlab.org
  • office: ARC 704-15 <-----new!
  • phone: (757)269-5678
  • home: (757)599-4210

    Applied Research Center, MS 7A
    12050 Jefferson Ave.
    Newport News. VA 23606

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    6/21-6/29: I'll be attending EPAC08.
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    About my late father, Dr. George B. Beard, professor emeritis, Wayne State University

    About my late mother in law, Jean L. Lamson

    1/4/08 Muons,Inc.: Quick Survey of Space Charge Codes

    5/16/07 FEL Users Group talk: Shedding FEL Light on Dark Matter
    for the LIPSS collaboration

    2/9/06 Low Emittance Muon Collider Workshop retrack program talk

    10/13/05 COOL05 summary talk - MS PPT - CUE only -
    [ UNIX:  file:/u/group/casa/acc_phys/6Dcooling/DOC/COOL05/13OCT05_SUMMARY_TALK/cool05_talk6.ppt ]
    [ Windows:  file:M:\casa\acc_phys\6Dcooling\DOC\COOL05\13OCT05_SUMMARY_TALK\cool05_talk6.ppt ]
                 {actual presentations}

    useful links:
  • access rules - why some things work and others don't

  • How to print a poster.

  • Muons, Inc.
  • Muon Collaboration Friday Meetings
  • photograph
  • TJNAF staff search
  • LIPSS - Li Pseudoscalar or Scalar Particle Search (a dark matter experiment) [internal only] [external]

  • Reference guide to KBB's software
    organization (TJNAF only)
    coding style (TJNAF only)
    machine dependencies (TJNAF only)

  • CASA Code Library - (TJNAF only)

  • CASA SUPPORTED directory - (TJNAF CUE only)
    [UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/SUPPORTED/index.html] [Windows: file:M:\casa\SUPPORTED\index.html]

  • [source code] [scripts] [libraries] [executables] for the following: (TJNAF only)
    • KWRAP - C wrapper for legacy FORTRAN
    • MISC - - miscellaneous utility programs
    • CERNSTUFF - - a collection of CERN library-reated utilities
    • SPLITCF - source code analyzer for FORTRAN, C, and hybrid code
    • KBB libraries:
      * KBB/C - C utilities
      * KBB/F77/TRICKS - FORTRAN platform independent utilities
      * KBB/F77/SPECIAL - FORTRAN platform dependent utilities

  • particle tracking
      discriptions of common formats
      Rtext - retrack native text
      Rbinary - retrack native binary
      G - g4beamline ascii
      V - g4beamline verbose
      A - g4beamline alltrace
      I - ICOOL format
      O - OptiM format
      P - TJNAF parmela KBB format
      S - ANL SDDS format
      T2 - LANL parmela TAPE2 format
      T3 - LANL parmela TAPE3 format

      retrack - conversion between formats, etc. (talk)
      kbb2cyl - conversion to cylindrical coordinates
      txt2straight - calculates intrinsic energy spread

  • 6D cooling of muons (TJNAF UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/acc_phys/6Dcooling/DOC/index.html or Windows: file:M:\casa\acc_phys\6Dcooling\DOC\index.html CUE only)

    • Kevin B. Beard, 20 Jun 2008 (beard@jlab.org)