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Dr. KEVIN B. BEARD

Dr. Kevin B. Beard

works for the FEL at TJNAF and is an associate member of the CASA accelerator physics group,
is helping with the LIPSS dark matter experiment, and often works with Muons, Inc.

  • email: beard@jlab.org
  • office: ARC 602-14
  • phone: (757)269-5678
  • FAX:(757)269-5024
  • home: (757)599-4210

    • Th. Jefferson Nat'l Acc. Fac, MS 7A
    12000 Jefferson Ave.
    Newport News. VA 23606

    About my late father, Dr. George B. Beard, professor emeritis, Wayne State University

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

    5/11/06 CASA seminar: PARMELA modeling and beam-based measurements in the JLab Upgrade FEL Injector
    with Carlos Hernandez-Garcia

    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

  • photograph
  • TJNAF main page
  • TJNAF FEL main page
  • TJNAF CASA main page
  • TJNAF staff search
  • Muons, Inc.
  • 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

  • writing software for the LIPSS dark matter search
      lipss_tools
      lipssscan 5.0 - scanning, converting, & manipulating SPE & FITS-format files for both Piacton 400BR/LN and Apogee U47 cameras

  • learning MicroWaveStudio
    [UNIX:  file:/u/group/mafiausers/beard/] [Windows:  file:M:\mafiausers\beard\]

  • 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
      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

  • Son of Orbit Lock Routine (TJNAF only)
    [ UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/FEL/beard/soolr/CURRENT/DOC/index.html] [Windows: file:M:\casa\FEL\beard\soolr\CURRENT\DOC\index.html]

  • beam optics using DIMAD (TJNAF only) [UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/FEL/beard/dimad/CURRENT/DOC/index.html] [Windows: file:M:\casa\FEL\beard\dimad\CURRENT\DOC\index.html]

  • 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)

  • current version of LANL parmela (TJNAF CUE only) [UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/parmela/beard/LANL/DOC/HTML/index.html] [Windows: file:M:/casa/parmela/beard/LANL/DOC/HTML/index.html]
    working version of current FEL injector [UNIX: file:/u/home/beard/CASA/erl/BEARD/FEL/INJECTOR_OCT05/DOC/index.html] [Windows: file:M:/casa\erl\BEARD\FEL\INJECTOR_OCT05\DOC\index.html]
    [Trace3D manual]

  • current version of FEL parmela (TJNAF only)

  • current version of CEBAF parmela (TJNAF only)

  • parmela-tools - related software
    parmgle3: parmela GLE graphics tool (TJNAF only)
    parmplot: parmela NCAR graphics tool (TJNAF only)
    parmsens: more parmela GLE graphics (TJNAF only)
    unsaver: reads parmela binary savecor files (TJNAF only)
    remapper: converts between TJNAF and LANL parmela map files (TJNAF only)
    resaver: writes parmela binary savecor files (TJNAF only)
    cathsaver: writes parmela-fel cathode input files (TJNAF only)
    txt2straight: calculates intrinsic energy spread from parmela output

  • current version of tdbbu [UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/SUPPORTED/tdbbu/DOC/index.html] [Windows: file:M:\casa\SUPPORTED\tdbbu\DOC\index.html>] (TJNAF CUE only)

  • current version of matbbu [UNIX: file:/u/group/casa/SUPPORTED/matbbu/DOC/index.html] [Windows: file:M:\casa\SUPPORTED\matbbu\DOC\index.html] (TJNAF CUE only)

  • CEBAF Energy Recovery experiment

  • Hints on porting to HP-UX

  • CEBAF Parmela development (TJNAF only)
  • CEBAF Parmela simulations for G-zero (TJNAF only)

  • 12GeV upgrade work (TJNAF-ERL group only)
  • tdbbu development (TJNAF-ERL group only)
  • tdbbu release (TJNAF only)
  • matbbu development (TJNAF-ERL group only)
  • matbbu release (TJNAF only)

  • USPAS Jan 2002
  • USPAS Jan 2003
  • USPAS Jan 2003 (repeat)

  • Energy Recovery Linacs

    • Kevin B. Beard, 29 Jun 2007 (beard@jlab.org)