Mask files for LHC and HL-LHC
Contributors: R. De Maria, S. Fartoukh, M. Giovannozzi, G. Iadarola, Y. Papaphilippou, D. Pellegrini, G. Sterbini, F. Van Der Veken
The mask file is script that uses MAD-X to prepare the LHC model for tracking simulations, to be performed for example with sixdesk/sixtrack.
The user can choose between two approaches, both documented in this website:
Certain advanced features as the configuration of Beam 4 (counter-clockwise) with beam-beam or advanced luminosity leveling are available only in pymask.
The tools are hosted in a centralized repository, available:
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on AFS at
/afs/cern.ch/eng/tracking-tools/modules
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on github at https://github.com/lhcopt/lhcmask/