SNSPowderReduction dialog.
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The algorithm used for reduction of powder diffraction data obtained on SNS instruments (e.g. PG3)
| Name | Direction | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Filename | Input | list of str lists | Mandatory | Files to combine in reduction. Allowed extensions: [‘_event.nxs’, ‘.nxs.h5’] |
| PreserveEvents | Input | boolean | True | If the InputWorkspace is an EventWorkspace, this will preserve the full event list (warning: this will use much more memory!). |
| Sum | Input | boolean | False | Sum the runs. Does nothing for characterization runs |
| PushDataPositive | Input | string | None | Add a constant to the data that makes it positive over the whole range. Allowed values: [‘None’, ‘ResetToZero’, ‘AddMinimum’] |
| BackgroundNumber | Input | int list | 0 | If specified overrides value in CharacterizationRunsFile If -1 turns off correction. |
| VanadiumNumber | Input | int list | 0 | If specified overrides value in CharacterizationRunsFile. If -1 turns off correction. |
| VanadiumBackgroundNumber | Input | int list | 0 | If specified overrides value in CharacterizationRunsFile. If -1 turns off correction. |
| CalibrationFile | Input | string | Allowed extensions: [‘.h5’, ‘.hd5’, ‘.hdf’, ‘.cal’] | |
| GroupingFile | Input | string | Overrides grouping from CalibrationFile. Allowed extensions: [‘.xml’] | |
| CharacterizationRunsFile | Input | list of str lists | File with characterization runs denoted. Allowed values: [‘txt’] | |
| ExpIniFilename | Input | string | Allowed extensions: [‘.ini’] | |
| UnwrapRef | Input | number | 0 | Reference total flight path for frame unwrapping. Zero skips the correction |
| LowResRef | Input | number | 0 | Reference DIFC for resolution removal. Zero skips the correction |
| CropWavelengthMin | Input | number | 0 | Crop the data at this minimum wavelength. Overrides LowResRef. |
| CropWavelengthMax | Input | number | Optional | Crop the data at this maximum wavelength. Forces use of CropWavelengthMin. |
| RemovePromptPulseWidth | Input | number | 0 | Width of events (in microseconds) near the prompt pulse to remove. 0 disables |
| MaxChunkSize | Input | number | 0 | Specify maximum Gbytes of file to read in one chunk. Default is whole file. |
| Binning | Input | dbl list | 0,0,0 | Positive is linear bins, negative is logorithmic |
| ResampleX | Input | number | 0 | Number of bins in x-axis. Non-zero value overrides “Params” property. Negative value means logarithmic binning. |
| BinInDspace | Input | boolean | True | If all three bin parameters a specified, whether they are in dspace (true) or time-of-flight (false) |
| StripVanadiumPeaks | Input | boolean | True | Subtract fitted vanadium peaks from the known positions. |
| VanadiumFWHM | Input | number | 7 | Default=7 |
| VanadiumPeakTol | Input | number | 0.05 | How far from the ideal position a vanadium peak can be during StripVanadiumPeaks. Default=0.05, negative turns off |
| VanadiumSmoothParams | Input | string | 20,2 | Default=20,2 |
| VanadiumRadius | Input | number | 0.3175 | Radius for CarpenterSampleCorrection |
| BackgroundSmoothParams | Input | string | Default=off, suggested 20,2 | |
| FilterBadPulses | Input | number | 95 | Filter out events measured while proton charge is more than 5% below average |
| ScaleData | Input | number | 1 | Constant to multiply the data before writing out. This does not apply to PDFgetN files. |
| SaveAs | Input | string | gsas | List of all output file types. Allowed values are ‘fullprof’, ‘gsas’, ‘nexus’, ‘pdfgetn’, and ‘topas’ |
| OutputFilePrefix | Input | string | Overrides the default filename for the output file (Optional). | |
| OutputDirectory | Input | string | Mandatory | |
| CacheDir | Input | string | the directory in which the cache file will be created | |
| FinalDataUnits | Input | string | dSpacing | Allowed values: [‘dSpacing’, ‘MomentumTransfer’] |
| SplittersWorkspace | Input | Workspace | Splitters workspace for split event workspace. | |
| SplitInformationWorkspace | Input | TableWorkspace | Name of table workspace containing information for splitters. | |
| LowResolutionSpectraOffset | Input | number | -1 | If larger and equal to 0, then process low resolution TOF and offset is the spectra number. Otherwise, ignored. |
| NormalizeByCurrent | Input | boolean | True | Normalize by current |
| CompressTOFTolerance | Input | number | 0.01 | Tolerance to compress events in TOF. |
| FrequencyLogNames | Input | str list | SpeedRequest1,Speed1,frequency,skf1.speed | Candidate log names for frequency |
| WaveLengthLogNames | Input | str list | LambdaRequest,lambda,skf12.lambda | Candidate log names for wave length |
Filter wall is enabled by setting FilterCharacterizations property to true. Then the _getTimeFilterWall routine is used to build the filter wall from the data defined by SplitInformationWorkspace and SplittersWorkspace properties. Time filter wall is used in _loadData to load data in a certain range of time. Here is how the filter is used:
More information is found in Event Filtering.
There are two properties related to calibration (CalibrationFile and GroupingFile) and three implicit workspace dependencies (<instrument>_mask, <instrument>_group, and <instrument>_cal). If the workspaces do not exist, they will be created during the algorithm’s execution.
If specified, the CalibrationFile is loaded using LoadDiffCal v1. If the GroupingFile is specified, the grouping it specifies takes precedence over the one that is in the CalibrationFile. LoadDetectorsGroupingFile v1 performs the loading. The order of preference in which to use is (first found wins):
AlignAndFocusPowder v1 does the actual resolution of which information to use.
The CharacterizationRunsFile, ExpIniFilename, BackgroundNumber, VanadiumNumber, VanadiumBackgroundNumber all contribute to determine which runs to use for background subtraction and normalization. Specifying the various *Number properties as 0, indicates using the values found in the files. Specifying -1 indicates to not do the corrections at all. The files are loaded using PDLoadCharacterizations v1 which also contains the focus positions. Which runs to used are determined by PDDetermineCharacterizations v1.
This is a worksflow algorithm used to process and the results of powder diffraction scattering experimens on SNS instruments. Processing data from instruments not at SNS is unsupported. Sample usage can be found in the system tests.
Categories: Algorithm Index | Diffraction\Reduction
Python: SNSPowderReduction.py (last modified: 2019-03-15)
