Muon1 Package (Version 4.3x) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This program simulates the pion-to-muon decay channel (grey cylinders surrounding a straight blue path) of the RAL Neutrino Factory front end design. This is different to the previous versions of the solenoid-channel-only optimisation because it varies all parameters of the solenoids independently of one another. The bending chicane featured in versions 4.0-4.2x will be replaced by a linear accelerator and a muon 'cooling ring' in version 5. *** To install as a screensaver, simply run muon1.scr in your Muon1 directory *** The file config.txt allows you to change the resolution that the graphical version runs at, and the priority level that the background version uses (where "Background" is the lowest), and also the number of threads you want the program to use for its calculations. This is for multiprocessor machines and you should set the number of threads to the number of processors you have (or double that number if you have hyperthreading). The program will run without graphics if started with the muon1_background.bat file, so you can use Windows as normal while it is running. To terminate it, use the task manager to end the task "muon1". To set this program to run on startup, place a shortcut to it in your Start Menu's StartUp directory. Migrating to New Versions ------------------------- When extracting a new version, it is highly recommended to use a clean directory. However, certain files are normally OK to transfer across - these are: results.dat Archived results results.txt Unsent results config.txt Configuration settings user.txt Username identification sendlog.log Log of servers used to send results Submitting Results ------------------ The program does this itself! It may ask you to specify a username to begin with, or inform you periodically if there is a new version of the software available from the website. The background version will produce an FTP console window for a few seconds while it uploads results. The screen on graphical version may go blank for a few seconds while it attempts to send results, but after that should carry on normally. The program can detect if you are connected to the internet, so if it fails to send the results file, it will try again the next time it finishes one. If you do not want the program to upload results auotmatically, use config.txt to specify this, and run the file "manualsend.bat" when you have accumulated more than 100K of results (or when you wish to upgrade to a new version and submit remaining results). More information should be available at http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/