Comprehensive optimization platform for accelerator and beam transport system design

该提案旨在提供一种集成解决方案，以解决在设计、构建和操作加速器或束流传输系统时经常严重损害优化过程的问题：（1）设计工具是临时组装的，并且是次优的，范围有限，一致性和灵活性。在一次性应用程序中浪费时间和精力。(2)缺乏统一的软件基础设施来互连、集成、交叉检查和存档对不同物理过程建模的单独程序。(3)考虑到子系统的相互作用和综合设计和操作参数之间的权衡，真正的全局优化努力不足。(4)调试和运营策略在地面层面没有整合，导致意外、浪费资源和昂贵的改造。(5)在设计过程中没有严格对待设计的鲁棒性，更不用说误差可恢复性的研究，控制/反馈系统的有效性的措施。

This proposal aims to provide an integrated solution to problems often severely compromising the optimization processes in designing, building and operating an accelerator or beam delivery system: (1) Design tools assembled ad hoc and sub-optimal, with limited scope, consistency, and flexibility. Time and efforts wasted in single-use applications. (2) Absence of unifying software infrastructure to interconnect, integrate, cross-check, and archive separate programs modeling distinct physical processes. (3) Insufficient effort for truly global optimization accounting for sub-system interplay and trade-off among comprehensive set of design and operating parameters. (4) Commissioning and operational strategies not integrated at ground level, leading to surprises, squandered resources and costly retrofits. (5) Robustness of design not rigorously treated in design processes, much less the study of error recoverability, a measure of control/feedback system effectiveness.