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Diffraction Changes
- HFIR HB3A’s data reduction interface application (MantidPlot/Interfaces/Diffraction/HFIR 4Circle Reduction)
has been expanded and improved from previous release. It provides an integrated user-friendly interface for
instrument scientists and users to access data, calculate and refine UB matrix, merge multiple data sets
for slice-view and peak integration.
- IntegratePeaksMDHKL has been added to integrate data in HKL space. The
main usage will be to normalize the data using
MDNormSCD and then integrate the resulting MDHistoWorkspace,
but it also integrates MDHistoWorkspaces and MDEventWorkspaces without normalizing.
The MD data must be in units of HKL. A 3D box is created for each peak and the background
and peak data are separated. The intensity and sigma of the intensity is found from the grid inside the peak and
the background is subtracted. The boxes are created and integrated in parallel and less memory is required than
binning all HKL space at once. The figure shows the grid points within an HKL box that are in one peak from Si data.
- Some improvements were done for creating peaks from python. CreatePeaksWorkspace
copies the goniometer from the input MatrixWorkspace to PeaksWorkspace. createPeak for PeaksWorkspace copies goniometer
from PeaksWorkspace to peak. setGoniometer for a peak can be done from python and setQLabFrame and setQSampleFrame work
correctly now with one argument.
- SCDCalibratePanels has been rewritten to calibrate the position and rotations of
each panel independently in parallel. There are options to calibrate the panel size and the L1 for all the panels.
Only the U of the UB matrix is refined. There is a script, scripts/SCD_Reduction/SCDCalibratePanelsResults.py, that takes the output of
this algorithm and plots the theoretical vs calculated position of each peak for each panel. The RMSD in mm is
calculated and printed in a log file and on the plots.
- Given a PeaksWorkspace or MatrixWorkspace with an instrument,
SetDetScale
will set or change the detector bank scales that are used in SaveHKL and AnvredCorrection. The input format is the same as
used in anvred3.py, so DetScaleList input can be pasted from the definition of detScale there. The default values can be
set in the instrument parameter file. Default values are in the parameter file for the TOPAZ instrument.
- SaveLauenorm
was modified to have an option to use the detector bank scales from the instrument parameters. The values can be
set to have defaults in the instrument parameter file or by
SetDetScale.
- EnggFocus: bins are now masked at the beginning of the workflow
(when using the option MaskBinsXMins)
- SaveDiffFittingAscii an algorithm which saves a TableWorkspace containing
diffraction fitting results as an ASCII file
- New Fit All button on the Fitting Tab will enable user to
batch-process all the runs and banks when a range of run number
is given. During the Fit process,
SaveDiffFittingAscii algorithm
will be utilised to save engggui_fitting_fitpeaks_param
TableWorkspace as a csv file.
- New Load button on the Fitting Tab, will enable user to load the
focused file to the canvas, so that the user can select the peaks
manually beforehand
- New tool-tip How to use quickly tells users how to use the peak
picker tool by simply hovering their cursor over it.
- SNSPowderReduction has changed
parameters.
Instrument
, RunNumber
, and Extension
have
been replaced with a single Filename
parameter. This has been
paired with changes to the Powder Diffraction interface as
well. There were also a variety of bugfixes related to the output
workspaces. While it did not affect the saved data files, the output
workspaces were not always correctly normalized or in the requested
units. There is also an additional GroupingFile
parameter which
allows overriding the grouping that is specified in the
CalibrationFile
. The documentation for this algorithm has been
greatly expanded as well.
- PDFFourierTransform has been modified to
look at the signal as well when looking at the
Q
-range to use
for the transform.
- Crystallography Powder Diffraction Script: S-Empty option has been enabled for
- the Crystallography Powder Diffraction Script. In order to use the
S-Empty option, simply provide the S-Empty run number within the
.pref
file.
- CorelliCrossCorrelate: The
weights applied to events have changed by a factor of the duty cycle
(\(c\approx0.498\)) as requested by the instrument scientists.
- Pearl Powder Diffraction Script:
A workflow diagram for
pearl_run_focus
function has been created.
- CalibrateRectangularDetectors has been modified to output
.h5
formatted calibration files as well as the other versions it
already supported.
- New algorithm PDCalibration for
pixel-by-pixel calibration in time-of-flight space.
- An updated version of the IMAT instrument definition now includes
prototype diffraction detector banks.
- Fixed the submission of custom commands.
Full list of diffraction
and
imaging changes on GitHub.