SYNCH‐status and recent use at SSCL

SYNCH is a computer program for use in the design and analysis of synchrotrons, storage rings, and beamlines. The first accelerator program to organize its input in the form of a language, SYNCH provides a natural way to describe and design lattices and to analyze them through calculations of betatron functions, dispersion, beam envelopes, emittances, and closed orbits. In addition, particle tracking, non‐linear transformations, misalignments, electron integrals, and orbit corrections may be treated. A brief summary of some features of the program and recent applications for designing the Interaction Regions (IR) of the SSC will be given.