MAPA: implementation of standard interchange format and use of analyzing lattices

MAPA (Modular Accelerator Physics Analysis) is an object oriented application for accelerator design and analysis with a Motif based graphical user interface. MAPA has been ported to AIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris and IRIX. MAPA provides an intuitive environment for accelerator study and design. The user can bring up windows for fully nonlinear analysis of accelerator lattices in any number of dimensions. The current analysis methods of lifetime plots and surfaces of sections have been used to analyze the improved lattice design of Wan, Cary and Shasharina (this conference). MAPA can now read and write Standard Interchange Format (MAD) accelerator description files and it has a general graphical user interface for adding, changing and deleting elements. Consistency checks prevents deletion of used elements and creation of recursive beamlines. Plans include development of a richer set of modeling tools and the ability to invoke existing modeling codes through the MAPA interface.