LoadSQW v2¶

LoadSQW dialog.

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Summary
- See Also
Properties
Description
Source

Summary ¶

Load an N-dimensional workspace from a .sqw file produced by Horace.

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
Filename	Input	string	Mandatory	File of type SQW format. Allowed extensions: [‘.sqw’]
MetadataOnly	Input	boolean	False	Load Metadata without events.
OutputFilename	Input	string		If specified, the output workspace will be a file-backed MDEventWorkspace. Allowed extensions: [‘.nxs’]
Q3DFrames	Input	string	Q_sample	The required frame for the output workspace. Allowed values: [‘Q_sample’, ‘HKL’]
OutputWorkspace	Output	MDEventWorkspace	Mandatory	Output IMDEventWorkspace reflecting SQW data

Description ¶

The algorithm reads the pixel information defined in an .sqw file produced by the Horace program and stores it in a MDEventWorkspace.

SQW objects in Horace can be split into 4 sections (see below for more detail):

main_header: global information on the file
header(s): metadata for each .spe file that contributed to the final file
detpar: detector parameters describing the instrument
data: data section containing the pixel & projection information

They can then come in two flavours:

sqw-type: all sections are filled in
dnd-type: main_header, header, detpar are empty structures & data.urange and data.pix do not exist.

DND-type objects can not be currently read or understood by Mantid.

SQW File Structure ¶

Here we describe all of the fields of the .sqw file along with remarks regarding how they are treated within Mantid.

Preamble:
% appname                 Name of the application that wrote the file (not stored)
% appversion              Version of the application used to write the file (not stored)
% sqw_type                Flag indicating object type (not stored)
% ndims                   Number of dimensions of the SQW file (ignored, always assumed to be 4)

Main_header:
%   main_headerfilename   Name of sqw file that is being read, excluding path (ignored)
%   main_headerfilepath   Path to sqw file that is being read, including terminating file separator (ignored)
%   main_headertitle      Title of sqw data structure
%   main_headernfiles     Number of spe files that contribute to the sqw object

Header: (scalar structure, or cellarray of scalar structures if more than one spe file)
%   header{i}.filename   Name of sqw file excluding path
%   header{i}.filepath   Path to sqw file including terminating file separator
%   header{i}.efix       Fixed energy (ei or ef depending on emode)
%   header{i}.emode      Emode=1 direct geometry, =2 indirect geometry, =0 if diffraction ''' Only emode 1 have ever been tried '''
%   header{i}.alatt      Lattice parameters (Angstroms)
%   header{i}.angdeg     Lattice angles (deg)
%   header{i}.cu         First vector defining scattering plane (r.l.u.)
%   header{i}.cv         Second vector defining scattering plane (r.l.u.)
%   header{i}.psi        Orientation angle (rad)
%   header{i}.omega      --|
%   header{i}.dpsi         |  Crystal misorientation description (rad)
%   header{i}.gl           |  (See notes elsewhere e.g. Tobyfit manual
%   header{i}.gs         --|
%   header{i}.en         Energy bin boundaries (meV) in the input spe file [column vector]
%   header{i}.uoffset    Offset of origin of pixel projection axes in r.l.u. and energy i.e. [h; k; l; en] [column vector]
%   header{i}.u_to_rlu   Matrix (4x4) of pixel projection axes in hkle representation
%                      u(:,1) first vector - u(1:3,1) r.l.u., u(4,1) energy etc.
%   header{i}.ulen       Length of pixel projection axes vectors in Ang^-1 or meV [row vector]
%   header{i}.ulabel     Labels of the pixel projection axes [1x4 cell array of character strings]

The pixel projection axes u1, u2, u3 define the coordinate frame in which the pixel coordinates are stored in data.pix. They are defined such that:

u1 is parallel to the vector u, specified when generating the sqw file, defining the beam direction (so $u_1||k_i$ )
u2 is perpendicular to u1 and in the scattering plane defined by the vectors u and v given when generating the sqw file
u3 is the cross-product of u1 and u2.

Units are $\AA^{-1}$ for all 3 axes.

Detpar:
%   detpar.filename    Name of file excluding path
%   detpar.filepath    Path to file including terminating file separator
%   detpar.group       Row vector of detector group number
%   detpar.x2          Row vector of secondary flightpaths (m)
%   detpar.phi         Row vector of scattering angles (deg)
%   detpar.azim        Row vector of azimuthal angles (deg)
%                  (West bank=0 deg, North bank=90 deg etc.)
%   detpar.width       Row vector of detector widths (m)
%   detpar.height      Row vector of detector heights (m)

Data:
%   data.filename   Name of sqw file that is being read, excluding path
%   data.filepath   Path to sqw file that is being read, including terminating file separator
%   data.title      Title of sqw data structure
*   data.alatt      Lattice parameters for data field (Ang^-1)
*   data.angdeg     Lattice angles for data field (degrees)
%   data.uoffset    Offset of origin of projection axes in r.l.u. and energy ie. [h; k; l; en] [column vector]
%   data.u_to_rlu   Matrix (4x4) of projection axes in hkle representation
%                      u(:,1) first vector - u(1:3,1) r.l.u., u(4,1) energy etc.
%   data.ulen       Length of projection axes vectors in Ang^-1 or meV [row vector]
%   data.ulabel     Labels of the projection axes [1x4 cell array of character strings]
%   data.iax        Index of integration axes into the projection axes  [row vector]
%                  Always in increasing numerical order
%                       e.g. if data is 2D, data.iax=[1,3] means summation has been performed along u1 and u3 axes
%   data.iint       Integration range along each of the integration axes. [iint(2,length(iax))]
%                       e.g. in 2D case above, is the matrix vector [u1_lo, u3_lo; u1_hi, u3_hi]
%   data.pax        Index of plot axes into the projection axes  [row vector]
%                  Always in increasing numerical order
%                       e.g. if data is 3D, data.pax=[1,2,4] means u1, u2, u4 axes are x,y,z in any plotting
%                                       2D, data.pax=[2,4]     "   u2, u4,    axes are x,y   in any plotting
%   data.p          Call array containing bin boundaries along the plot axes [column vectors]
%                       i.e. row cell array {data.p{1}, data.p{2} ...} (for as many axes as length of data.pax)
%   data.dax        Index into data.pax of the axes for display purposes. For example we may have
%                  data.pax=[1,3,4] and data.dax=[3,1,2] This means that the first display axis is data.pax(3)=4,
%                  the second is data.pax(1)=1, the third is data.pax(2)=3. The reason for data.dax is to allow
%                  the display axes to be permuted but without the contents of the fields p, s,..pix needing to
%                  be reordered [row vector]
-----> Large data fields, data for MD image
%   data.s          Cumulative signal.  [size(data.s)=(length(data.p1)-1, length(data.p2)-1, ...)]
%   data.e          Cumulative variance [size(data.e)=(length(data.p1)-1, length(data.p2)-1, ...)]
%   data.npix       No. contributing pixels to each bin of the plot axes.
%                  [size(data.pix)=(length(data.p1)-1, length(data.p2)-1, ...)]
----->
*   data.urange     True range of the data along each axis [urange(2,4)]
----> Pixels or events data
*   data.pix        Array containing data for each pixel:
*                  If npixtot=sum(npix), then pix(9,npixtot) contains:
*                   u1      -|
*                   u2       |  Coordinates of pixel in the pixel projection axes
*                   u3       |
*                   u4      -|
*                   irun        Run index in the header block from which pixel came
*                   idet        Detector group number in the detector listing for the pixel
*                   ien         Energy bin number for the pixel in the array in the (irun)th header
*                   signal      Signal array
*                   err         Error array (variance i.e. error bar squared)

data.s is normalized by the number of pixels, as is the variance data.e. For those elements where data.npix==0, data.s=0 and data.e=0

Output Frame ¶

The pixel information from the file is transformed to the frame selected by the user. More specifically the final coordinates are computed by applying one of the following transformations:

Q_sample: $\mathbb{I}$
Q_lab: $G_r U u_{123}$
HKL: $\frac{1}{2\pi}B^{-1}$

where $\mathbb{I}$ is the identity matrix, $\frac{1}{2\pi}B^{-1}$ is the uper-left 3x3 portion of u_to_rlu, $G_r$ is the matrix of rotation from the goniometer and $U$ is the rotation matrix that maps from the cartesian coordinate system attached to the sample to the spectrometer coordinate system.The energy value is left unchanged.

Assumptions ¶

The following assumptions are made about data contained within the file.

the lattice parameters are all the same for all contributing spe files
the energy offset is zero in cuts
requires that all sqw files that are to be combined have # each been created from only one spe file # the same lattice parameters and pixel projection axes as held in the header block # the same projection axes and offsets, as held in the data block # the same plot and integration axes, with same bins and integration ranges

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\SQW | MDAlgorithms\DataHandling

Source ¶

C++ source: LoadSQW2.cpp (last modified: 2019-07-17)

C++ header: LoadSQW2.h (last modified: 2018-10-05)