以下是引用S-Vampire在2004-1-24 16:06:49的发言：
- - [Science Aims] - - -
The experiment is called the Neutrino Factory, scheduled for construction some time around 2015.  Its primary aim is to fire beams of neutrinos (fundamental particles) through the Earth's interior to detector stations on different continents.  They're doing this to measure whether they change type en route (there are 3 types of neutrino) and data from this in turn will allow them to determine the neutrino's mass (and whether it even has mass).

The reason they want to do this is that the neutrino is just about the most common particle in the universe (billions pass through your body every second) and if it has mass, this could cause the universe to eventually recollapse on itself.  Knowing the mass will also allow scientists to make better models of how the universe began.

Actually the machine that's being built (costing at least $1.9bn) has several scientific aims.  The neutrinos are used for fundamental physics experiments, but the proton beam that is produced at the start (this hits the target rod at the beginning of the simulation you download) is also going to be used in experiments for neutralising radioactive waste by transmuting the radioactive elements into stable ones.

You are simulating the part of the process where the protons hit a target rod and cause pions to be emitted, which decay into muons, which then proceed to a storage ring and decay into electrons and neutrinos.  This is a fairly critical part of the apparatus, which catches the pions and confines some of them into a beam while they decay into muons.  The efficiency of this dictates that of the entire machine.  If the R&D says it isn't efficient enough it may not get funded to be built, but users of this program have already doubled the estimated efficiency, so it probably will.

以下是引用和平在2004-1-24 18:27:38的发言：
不感兴趣....太复杂了

以下是引用碧城仙在2004-1-24 19:05:41的发言：
本人不才,翻译了http://stephenbrooks.org/muon1/v5.html上的前两段,基本上是能看看懂.

这站点的工程最优化那些Muon1的那儿。 这里，你能使用你们自己的PC 闲置时间模拟并且设计一粒子加速器。
背景资料 ... 详细了解工程，包括因特网连接。
技术报告 ... 正式writeup在工作上做到2002年6月。
当今的版本的统计 ... 迄今进步Muon1 用户做。 也看见队统计。
版本历史 ... 程序的修改做和以前的版本。 第1比3.11 版本的
最后的统计 ... ...并且适合版本4在一种不同的加速剂设计的工程后来移到模拟的4.21 b。 工程论坛 ... 日志记录，报告缺陷，咨询问题等等
   

以下是引用mopz0506在2004-1-25 8:27:37的发言：
注意，翻译者对原文涉及的中微子、介子、加速器等领域一窍不通，也只懂得最基本的英文，中文仅能保证语句大体通顺而已，余者实在无力顾及，不到之处，望方家指正。

以下这句中的 bending chicane 不知何指，我的 OXFORD ADVANCED LEARNER'S ENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY(Fourth edition) 找不到，有专业辞书的同好还请帮忙查一查。
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.

另有 optimisation 一词，我的词典上也查不到，但基本肯定 optimization 的另一种写法，是优化、调优的意思。

另外原文作者喜欢用
   // 原文作者喜用的段落小标题形式
这样的文字代替
   1. 一般作者喜用的段落小标题形式
这样形式的小标题，特此说明（难道作者喜欢用 C++编程？）

我不懂网页制作，如果有同好能够把这一段话加到翻译过的原文的顶上，让大家能够一看就明白译文并非出自专业人士之手，以免误人。

怎么上传附件？

以下是引用mopz0506在2004-1-25 10:38:53的发言：
用 Winzip 解压缩出来看看吧，主题是

DPAD Home Page 翻译，凑合着看吧(2)

不好意思，前面那段话本来应该加在网页上的，现在看起来没头没脑的...