New PBO Lab 2.1 Release

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AccelSoft is pleased to announce that the PBO Lab 2.1 release is now available. We would like to thank our numerous users who have offered their feed-back: we have relied on your input to develop a package that is even more intuitive and user-friendly. This new release is available to both current and prospective PBO Lab users. This new version supports three new PBO Lab Application Modules.

New Modules for PBO Lab 2.1:

• The DECAY-TURTLE Module allows users the ability to trace both the original (Parent) particles and two decay products (Daughters) for radioactive beams. DECAY-TURTLE is a FORTRAN code for simulating the propagation of charged particles through an accelerator beamline or magnetic transport system. It is similar to the TURTLE program in many respects, but includes the additional abilities of particular interest to modeling radioactive beams. Professional versions of both the TURTLE and DECAY-TURTLE Application Modules are available.
• The Electrostatic Palette Module for the TRACE 3-D Module provides a set of elements for modeling electrostatic lenses and accelerator columns. The Electrostatic Palette includes a number of options for einzel lenses, accelerator columns and gaps, electrostatic prisms, and electrostatic quadrupoles. The electrostatic elements are fully integrated with all the standard TRACE 3-D Magnet and RF elements. The electrostatic elements support 2-D continuous0 or 3-D bunched beam calculations, as well as matching and fitting capabilities.
• The Traveling Wave Accelerator Palette Module for the TRACE 3-D Module provides elements for modeling traveling wave accelerators. The Traveling Wave Palette includes a constant gradient traveling wave accelerator model and a constant impedance traveling wave accelerator model. Beam loading (current) effects on the accelerator gradient and the accelerator structure's beam focusing properties are included in a self-consistent manner. The traveling wave elements are fully integrated with the standard elements of TRACE 3-D and also support matching and fitting.
  

Standard Features of PBO Lab 2.x:

• PBO Lab 2.x is now available on CD-ROM.
• TRANSPORT, TURTLE, TRACE 3-D, and MARYLIE Application Modules are now available for this release.
• A new Application Context pop-up menu is used to display and access application-specific inputs for each of the installed Application Modules.
• Native inputs for the selected Application Context are indicated in the Global Parameters and Piece windows with green dots that appear to the right of a parameter.
• A new button bar in the Document Window allows quick access to File, Edit, and View commands.
• Users now can import lattice descriptions formatted as MAD, TRANSPORT, or TRACE 3-D files.
• Comments in the Piece window are displayed as labels for each Piece in the Model Space and Work Space of the Document Window.
• A new Alias Piece has been added.
• Pieces can now be moved by holding down the shift key while dragging a Piece icon. Of course, Pieces may also be copied, cut, pasted, etc.
• Additional numerical data is displayed and scale adjustments are now available to the Focusing and Bending Trajectories Modules.
• Graph Windows can be resized, from thumbnail to full screen, and plot scales can be set directly in the Graph Windows.
  Many other features and improvements have been added that are too numerous to list here.

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