SortEvents dialog.
Table of Contents
| Name | Direction | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| InputWorkspace | InOut | EventWorkspace | Mandatory | EventWorkspace to be sorted. |
| SortBy | Input | string | X Value | How to sort the events: X Value: the x-position of the event in each pixel (typically Time of Flight). Pulse Time: the wall-clock time of the pulse that produced the event. Allowed values: [‘X Value’, ‘Pulse Time’, ‘Pulse Time + TOF’] |
In an EventWorkspace, event binning is performed on the fly. The algorithm for binning requires a list of events sorted by time of flight, so it will perform a sort (once) on each pixel - however, this is done on request and without using multiple CPUs). To speed up the calculation, the Sort algorithm pre-sorts by Time of Flight, using multiple CPUs. Using this algorithm is completely optional.
Example - Sort events by X value:
LoadNexusProcessed(Filename=r'testeventsort.nxs',OutputWorkspace='TestEventWS',LoadHistory='0')
SortEvents(InputWorkspace='TestEventWS', SortBy="X Value")
ws = mtd["TestEventWS"]
ev1 = ws.getSpectrum(1)
ptimes = ev1.getPulseTimes()
tofs = ev1.getTofs()
for eindex in range(10):
print("Spectrum 1: Event %d, Pulse Time = %s, TOF = %d" % (eindex, str(ptimes[eindex]), tofs[eindex]))
Output:
Spectrum 1: Event 0, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:01.547472179 , TOF = 28522466
Spectrum 1: Event 1, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:01.943767507 , TOF = 31878622
Spectrum 1: Event 2, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:01.074349417 , TOF = 68579583
Spectrum 1: Event 3, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:02.147299004 , TOF = 137022165
Spectrum 1: Event 4, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.459551021 , TOF = 155513220
Spectrum 1: Event 5, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:01.404601841 , TOF = 189530310
Spectrum 1: Event 6, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.137946636 , TOF = 224973368
Spectrum 1: Event 7, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:02.029599992 , TOF = 271677101
Spectrum 1: Event 8, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.972665472 , TOF = 302753430
Spectrum 1: Event 9, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:01.831699602 , TOF = 319443029
Example - Sort events by Pulse time and TOF:
LoadNexusProcessed(Filename=r'testeventsort.nxs',OutputWorkspace='TestEventWS',LoadHistory='0')
SortEvents(InputWorkspace='TestEventWS',SortBy='Pulse Time + TOF')
ws = mtd["TestEventWS"]
ev1 = ws.getSpectrum(1)
ptimes = ev1.getPulseTimes()
tofs = ev1.getTofs()
for eindex in range(10):
print("Spectrum 1: Event %d, Pulse Time = %s, TOF = %d" % (eindex, str(ptimes[eindex]), tofs[eindex]))
Output:
Spectrum 1: Event 0, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.006085261 , TOF = 1384183147
Spectrum 1: Event 1, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.015057807 , TOF = 366664899
Spectrum 1: Event 2, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.060799751 , TOF = 1569052921
Spectrum 1: Event 3, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.096752392 , TOF = 1501703890
Spectrum 1: Event 4, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.097102049 , TOF = 2056073477
Spectrum 1: Event 5, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.098120140 , TOF = 1780138738
Spectrum 1: Event 6, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.137946636 , TOF = 224973368
Spectrum 1: Event 7, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.145045684 , TOF = 1887014465
Spectrum 1: Event 8, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.194277849 , TOF = 1608271930
Spectrum 1: Event 9, Pulse Time = 1990-01-01T00:00:00.213847028 , TOF = 1778837570
Categories: Algorithms | Events | Utility\Sorting
C++ source: SortEvents.cpp (last modified: 2017-10-03)
C++ header: SortEvents.h (last modified: 2017-12-11)