Reflectometer D17

D17 is the first ILL dedicated reflectometer and it has been designed to be as flexible as possible in resolution and modes of operation. The instrument is suitable for the analysis of surface structures in solids and solid/liquid interfaces. Horizontal surface experiments, such as free liquids, will suffer from a severe restriction in Q-range and flux and are thus not recommended for this instrument.

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d17_he3calibrate

function d17_he3calibrate,calfiles,main=main,water=water,mask=maskstring,F1=FF1,F2=FF2

                LAMP function to create a workspace with the values of phi,F1,F2 and transmission as a function of time. 

  The function uses d17_he3calc to calculate phi, F1 and F2,

                It then estimates the mean F1 and F2 (which are time-independent)

                It then recalculates phi (the only time-dependent quantity)

                The output has 7 rows:

                Row 1 = phi, calculated for each He3 calibration

                Row 2 = F1, calculated for each He3 calibration

                Row 3 = F2, calculated for each He3 calibration

                Row 4 = transmission, calculated for each He3 calibration

                Row 5 = phi calculated from the mean value of F1 below

                                                OR, using the optional F1 and/or F2 if specified

                Row 6 = the mean F1 for all the He3 calibration files

                Row 7 = the mean F2 for all the He3 calibration files

                The errors have also been estimated assuming Poissonian statistics

NECESSARY VARIABLES:

                calfiles=a string with ALL the 3He calibration runs included

                                The first and last file for each calibration scan must be

                                separated by a colon (:)

                                Separate calibration scans must be separated by a comma (,)

OPTIONAL VARIABLES:

                main=a string with the numbers for a measurement of the main beam, with an empty cell

                water=the number of the workspace with the (masked) water file in it. 

                                The data will be divided by this workspace if it exists

                maskstring=your choice of masking the detector, written as a string.  See maskme for more information on syntax.

                                                The default is no mask

                FF1 = a two element array with the first flipper efficiency and its error

                                Specify this if you want to force F1 to a value

                FF2 = a two element array with the second flipper efficiency and its error

                                Specify this if you want to force F2 to a value

 

e.g. w1=d17_he3calibrate('97087:97093,97339:97345,97591:97597',main='90201',water=1,mask='box,[190,200,63,222]')