LoadVulcanCalFile v1¶

LoadVulcanCalFile dialog.

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Summary
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Properties
Description
Usage
Source

Summary ¶

Loads set of VULCAN’s offset files into up to 3 workspaces: a GroupingWorkspace, OffsetsWorkspace and/or MaskWorkspace.

Properties ¶

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
OffsetFilename	Input	string	Mandatory	Path to the VULCAN offset file. Allowed extensions: [‘.dat’]
Grouping	Input	string	6Modules	Choices to output group workspace for 1 bank, 2 banks or 6 modules. Allowed values: [‘6Modules’, ‘2Banks’, ‘1Bank’]
BadPixelFilename	Input	string		Path to the VULCAN bad pixel file. Allowed extensions: [‘.dat’]
WorkspaceName	Input	string		The base of the output workspace names. Names will have ‘_group’, ‘_offsets’, ‘_mask’ appended to them.
BankIDs	Input	int list		Bank IDs for the effective detectors. Must cover all banks in the definition.
EffectiveDIFCs	Input	dbl list		DIFCs for effective detectors.
Effective2Thetas	Input	dbl list		2 thetas for effective detectors.
EventWorkspace	InOut	EventWorkspace		Optional input/output EventWorkspace to get aligned by offset file. It serves as a verifying tool, and will be removed after test.

Description ¶

This algorithm loads a set of VULCAN’s calibration files, including detector offset file and bad pixel file, and convert VULCAN’s offset on time-of-flight to Mantid’s offset on d-spacing.

By this algorithm, Vulcan’s calibration file can be converted to the standard calibration file for SNSPowderReduction.

Detector offset file ¶

There are $62500$ ( $50\times 1250$ ) rows in the offset file. In each row, the first value is the pixel ID; and the second is inner-module offset.

For each module, it starts from row $1250\times M_{i}$ , where $M_{i}$ is the module ID starting from 0.

Line $1250\times M_i + 0$ : pixel ID, offset (first detector in module)
Line $1250\times M_i + 1$ : pixel ID, offset
... ...
Line $1250\times M_i + 1231$ : pixle ID, offset (last detector in module)
Line $1250\times M_i + 1232$ : pixel ID, offset (detector is not used)
... ...
Line $1250\times M_i + 1248$ : pixel ID, inter module correction
Line $1250\times M_i + 1249$ : pixel ID, inter bank correction

Bad pixel file ¶

In bad pixel file, each line contains one and only one integer corresponding to the detector ID of a bad pixel. The bad pixels will be masked in the output MaskWorkspace.

Conversion from offset in TOF to d-spacing ¶

With VULCAN’s offsets in TOF, the calibration is done as the following.

Total offset is the product of innter-bank offset, inner-module offset and inter-module offset

$\log_{10}(\xi) = \log_{10}(\xi_0) + \log_{10}(\xi_1) + \log_{10}(\xi_2)$

Time-of-flight value of each neutron is obtained by division of total offset.

$\log_{10}(T') = \log_{10}(T) - \log_{10}(\xi)$

$T' = \frac{T}{\xi}`$

where (1) $\xi_0$ is the inner-bank correction, (2) $\xi_1$ is the inner module (inter-bank) correction, and (3) $\xi_2$ is the inter-module (inner-pack) correction.

Be noticed that the correction factor recorded in VULCAN’s offset file is $\log(\xi)$ . Thus if we define $\Xi = \log(\xi)$ , then time focussing formula used by VUCLAN’s IDL code is $T^{(f)} = \frac{T}{10^{\Xi}}$

Therefore, by defining $\xi^{(v)}$ as the VULCAN’s offset, and $\xi^{(m)}$ as the Mantid’s offset, then we can convert VULCAN’s offset to Mantid’s as

$\xi^{(m)} = \frac{L\cdot\sin\theta}{L'\cdot\sin\theta'}\cdot\frac{1}{\xi^{(m)}} - 1$

VULCAN uses effective DIFC and $2\theta$ for the effective detector to be focussed on. It follows the Bragg rule for time-of-flight, i.e.,

$T = DIFC \cdot d = (252.777\cdot L\cdot 2\cdot\sin\theta)\cdot d$

Usage ¶

print ("LoadVulcanCalFile is obsolete and will be deprecated soon")

Output:

LoadVulcanCalFile is obsolete and will be deprecated soon

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\Text | Diffraction\DataHandling

Source ¶

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

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