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TOSCABankCorrection v1

Summary

Corrects TOSCA reductions where the peaks across banks are not in alignment.

Properties

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InputWorkspace	Input	Workspace	Mandatory	Input reduced workspace
SearchRange	Input	dbl list	200,2000	Range over which to find peaks
PeakPosition	Input	string		Specify a particular peak to use
ClosePeakTolerance	Input	number	20	Tolerance under which peaks are considered to be the same
PeakFunction	Input	string	Lorentzian	Type of peak to search for. Allowed values: [‘Lorentzian’, ‘Gaussian’]
OutputWorkspace	Output	MatrixWorkspace	Mandatory	Output corrected workspace
TargetPeakCentre	Output	number		X position between the centres of the two selected peaks
ScaleFactor1	Output	number		Scale factor for the first bank (histogram 0)
ScaleFactor2	Output	number		Scale factor for the second bank (histogram 1)

Description

This algorithm attempts to automatically correct TOSCA data in which the position of the sample has been moved and has affected the alignment of features on the spectra from forward and backscattering detector banks.

The input workspace should be an energy transfer reduction, for the default values of SearchRange and ClosePeakTolerance the X axis is assumed to be in cm-1, however the X axis is not restricted to this unit.

The algorithm works by finding peaks of a given shape (using the FindPeaks) on both the forward and backscattering banks, either selecting a peak in a given position or selecting the peak with the highest X value and attempting to match them to what is believed to be the same feature on the other bank.

A scale factor is then calculated for each bank that will align at least the selected peak and in doing so will also align the majority of misaligned peaks across the two banks.

The sacling factor is calculated as follows:

\[ \begin{align}\begin{aligned}X_{centre} = \frac{X_{forward peak} + X_{back peak}}{2}\\SF_{forward} = \frac{X_{centre}}{X_{forward peak}}\\SF_{back} = \frac{X_{centre}}{X_{back peak}}\end{aligned}\end{align} \]

The corrected spectra are then rebinned to the input workspace (using RebinToWorkspace) to preserve the X range and to maintain bin alignment.

The sum spectra (containing both forward and back scattering detectors) is then recalculated by averaging the intensities of the two corrected spectra, this compensates for the broader peaks seen on the original sum spectra due to the misalignment of the peaks.

Note

This algorithm is only intended to provide an approximation of what the measured spectra would look like if the sample was in the expected sample position.

Workflow

Usage

Note

To run these usage examples please first download the usage data, and add these to your path. In Mantid this is done using Manage User Directories.

Example - Automatic peak selection.

original_reduction = Load('TSC14007_graphite002_red.nxs')

corrected_reduction, peak_position, scale_factor_1, scale_factor_2 = \
  TOSCABankCorrection(InputWorkspace=original_reduction)

print('Target peak centre: %.f' % peak_position)

Output:

Target peak centre: 1080

Example - Manual peak selection.

original_reduction = Load('TSC14007_graphite002_red.nxs')

corrected_reduction, peak_position, scale_factor_1, scale_factor_2 = \
  TOSCABankCorrection(InputWorkspace=original_reduction,
                      PeakPosition='715')

print('Target peak centre: %.f' % peak_position)

Output:

Target peak centre: 714

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | Inelastic\Corrections | CorrectionFunctions\SpecialCorrections