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Minutes of the joint ABP-LOC/RLC team meeting of 24.05.2005
web site: http://ab-abp-rlc.web.cern.ch/ab-abp-rlc/
Extracted from the LOC summary  
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(1) Preparation and status of beam-beam tracking (WH,DK)
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Preparation of the beam-beam simulation campaign is over. 
This required: 
Development of a new environment/scripts to perform tune scans 
Development of the tool to submit the jobs to CPSS and BOINC 
Modifications in MADX 
It was suggested to improve the CPU-time requirements for tune-scans by
performing short-term runs to rule out bad tunes. 
Not performing a grid scan, but rather a sort of guided search 
(simplex method, simulated annealing, etc.) to find the best tune. 
It is suggested to perform a scan over the phase advance between the insertions.