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Investigating Data

The Pick tab on the controls panel allows you to see the data in the workspace.

The Toolbar

• - Navigate in the instrument display window (Zoom).

• - Select a single detector.

• - Select the whole instrument.

• - Select a tube/bank.

• - Add a single crystal peak.

• - Erase a peak.

• - Compare single crystal peaks.

• - Crystal Peak alignment tool.

• - Draw an ellipse.

• - Draw a rectangle.

• - Draw a circular sector.

• - Draw an arbitrary shape.

• - Edit a shape.

• - Draw an elliptical ring.

• - Draw a rectangular ring.

Picking a Single Detector

The Single Pixel tool displays the detector data in the mini-plot at the bottom of the tab.

Hover the mouse over a detector and see the mini-plot update. To zoom in on this mini-plot, select the button, click on a detector and then drag on the mini-plot. If you don’t drag (just click), you will add a SingleCrystalPeak (appearing in a new TableWorkspace).

Picking a Tube

The Tube selection tool is useful for tube instruments. When it’s on, the mini-plot displays the integrated data in the whole tube. The integration is done either over the detectors in the tube (Sum) or over time (Integrate). To switch between the options, click on a detector and hold the mouse button down as you move your cursor to the mini-plot. Then, with your cursor over the mini-plot, right-click to display the following menu:

Summing over the detectors

With the Sum option the mini-plot displays a sum of the counts in all detectors in a tube vs time of flight.

Integrating over the time of flight

With the Integrate option the mini-plot displays the counts integrated over time of flight vs detector position in the tube.

Detector positions can be shown as detector IDs, or distance from a tube’s end, or the φ angle. Switch between the units using the mini-plot’s context menu.

Data integration slider

Edit the range over the X-axis (e.g. Time) that the data is displayed by altering the data integration slider at the bottom of the Instrument Viewer. Drag the ends of the slider or input exact start and end values.

Navigate

The tool button switches on the navigation mode which is the same as in Render Tab.

Selecting Arbitrary Sets of Detectors

The buttons in the bottom row are for making complex selections. Buttons are for drawing shapes, is for editing them.

Draw an ellipse

1. Click the button.

2. Click and hold the mouse button down to start drawing.

3. Drag to resize.

Edit a shape

1. Switch on the editing tool . This tool is automatically selected after drawing a shape.

2. Click on a shape you would like to edit. The selected shape displays control points as small white rectangles.

3. Drag the control points to resize the shape.

4. To translate the shape click inside its shaded area and drag.

To select multiple shapes draw a box around them.

1. Copy selected shapes using Ctrl+C. Then paste them as much as you like using Ctrl+V.

The selected shapes are indicated by drawing a bounding box around each of them.

Only translation is possible for a multiple selection.

Sum selected detectors

The mini-plot automatically sums the counts in the detectors covered by the shapes and plots this vs time of flight.