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Data Analysis

Data analysis is supported through user training which is provided at the AINSE Neutron Scattering Winter School (http://www.ainse.edu.au/events2/winter_schools).

Data analysis for Taipan can be carried out for example with RESTRAX which can be found at http://neutron.ujf.cas.cz/restrax. It is specially designed for three-axis spectrometers (TAS) and is equipped with simplified (but faster) ray-tracing code for simulation of TAS resolution functions and additional tools for data analysis. It provides graphical representation of resolution functions as well as both simulated and experimental scattering functions. The non-linear least-squares fitting routine is available with variety of scattering models and a possibility to add other models created by users as a library linked dynamically to the main program. The program has been equipped with intuitive graphical user interface written in Java (portable across platforms).

For support, contact the Taipan instrument scientists: taipan@ansto.gov.au

Data Access

ANSTO promotes access to data collected during scientific experiments. See http://www.ansto.gov.au/ResearchHub/Bragg/Users/DataArchiving/index.htm

Access to data is available at ANSTO during the 3 year embargo period via the following options:

Login to https://tardis.nbi.ansto.gov.au where you can search through your data and download as required.

Access a secure copy at scp.nbi.ansto.gov.au using a client such as FileZilla (see http://filezilla-project.org/download.php) or winSCP (see http://winscp.net/eng/download.php).

If you are unable to login, contact the User Office user.office.nsw@ansto.gov.au 

It is ANSTO policy that after a 3 year embargo period, data becomes publicly accessible. This can be viewed as "Public Experiments" at https://tardis.nbi.ansto.gov.au. Metadata relating to the experimental data is copied to Research Data Australia http://researchdata.ands.org.au. In encouraging this practice ANSTO has helped many researchers forge new collaborations.

SpICE and SICS

The instrument control program used on TAIPAN is SICS (SINQ Instrument Control System) from PSI. SICS is run as a server, with Gumtree as the client.



Prior to the installation of SICS/Gumtree, the instrument control program used was SpICE, which is still used on the cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer, SIKA, at the Bragg Institute. The table below gives the correspondence between the two programs for the common operating functions. Many commands have additional keys that control the function or fix certain parameters. See the manuals for SICS and SpICE for further details. Most functions in SpICE can also be accessed via a graphical user interface; click on the individual commands for further details.  A subset of the SICS functions can be accessed via the Gumtree graphical user interface, and these are indicated in the right-hand column.



Both programs treat all moveable quantities (e.g. physical motors, sample-environment parameters, reciprocal-space and energy parameters) as motors, i.e. the values can be read, driven, and scanned.

 

FunctionSpICESICSGumtree
SETUP   

Enter crystal and instrument data begin

begin

title

users

contact

sample

lattice

monochromator

analyzer
tasub cell

tasub mono

tasub ana 
Load/Experiment

Expt (where data files

are kept)

proposal 

title

user

local

mono

ana

sense

collimation

sample
Specify instrument geometrymode

plusminus  
tasub ss 
Specify the scattering planespvtasub outofplane 1/0 
Set fixed incident/final energy/disregard analyserei/eftasub const ki/kf/elastic??? 
Set hardware options for motor nhold

lowerlimit

upperlimit
n enable 0/1

n fixed 1/-1

n softlowerlim x

n softupperlim x

n list 
 
Set the default preset for counts or scanspresetbm1 preset   
Calculate motor positions for a given h k l ei ef or vice-versacalctasub calcang

tasub calcqe  
 
BASIC MOTOR OPERATIONS   
Read the position of motor n???n 
Drive one or more motors n to specified value(s) xdrive 

drive_rel 
drive 
Drive to a specified reciprocal-lattice point (and energy) qh qk ql (en)brdrive qh qk ql (en)  
Set the zero angle for a specified motor nzero

setpos
n setzero x

setpos not x ??  
 
'Home' a motor n???n homerun 0/1 
Count for a fixed preset monitor count or time on countercount

 
counter count

counter getcounts
Check status bar

for bm1, bm2, & time 
Perform a scanscan

scanrel
runscan

mscan

cscan  
 


To stop a drive/run
???INT1712 1

stopexe n

stopexe all
Pause/Resume/Stop button 
Wait for a specified time t (sec)waitwait t  
SAMPLE ENVIRONMENT   

Set the temperature as T

Set_temprun tc1_driveable T

drive tc1_driveable T

hlist

hget

send  
 
SAMPLE ORIENTATION   

Reflection centring

scanrel n ...

com n
runscan n ... 

drive n centre
??? 
reflection-list manipulationsaddpeaktasub listref

tasub addref

tasub addauxref

tasub del  
 
Orientation-matrix generationpeak1

peak2

ubcalc 
tasub listub

tasub makeub n1 n2

tasub update  
 
EXPERIMENT OPERATIONS    
Incident energy calibrationcalibrate

(begin fit finish)
 Manual 6peak Ni scan 
Final energy calibration??? A1 scan & A1/A2

scan 
RUNNING EXPERIMENTS   
Write, view, and edit

command stack
???ext editor for .dat or .ill filesUse Batch Edit & Buffer Queue 
Execute a macrorunexe batch.tclPlay 
Interact with running sequence???NT1712 0/1/2/3Pause/Resume/Stop button 
Add notes to the log filecomment

logfileoutput 
logbook

Commandlog

GetLog

#comment 
 
MISCELLANEOUS   
Browse headers of raw data filesGraffiti  ??? HDF viewer (external) 
Plot and fit single or combined raw data files Graffiti ??? Load Script / Analysis / live data 

Simulate (validate) scans

scansim

SHOWDEST   
Insert ? to Batch editor & validate  
Spurion calculationGraffiti??????
On-line helphelp??????