CRG - thermal neutron backscattering spectrometer IN13

Because of its high energy resolution and high momentum transfer the backscattering spectrometer IN13 (CRG) is particularly useful for the microscopic study of single particle motions (jump reorientation, rotational and translational diffusion, tunnelling) observed by incoherent neutron scattering.

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IN13 Data Format

RESULTS FILE DATA FORMAT

The ASCII data files for IN13 consist of several blocks, organized as follows:

HEADER - TEXT - PAR 1- PAR 2 - SPECT1 - SPECT2 - … - MEASUREMENT

Each block is now described in the detail. Real numbers are written in 16-bytes long records using the scientific notation (e.g. 0.18000000E+05 with two padding blanks), integers are written in 8-bytes long records.

 

HEADER BLOCK

 

Line 1: RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR…RRRRRRRRRRR (80 char)

Line 2: Numor or Number of Run (6 characters, stored as int 8)

Line 3: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…AAAAAAAAAA (80 char)

Line 4: Number of characters to be read

Line 5: Name of Instrument (4 char)

Name of experiment (10 char)

Date and time of creation (18 char)

Line 6: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII…IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII (80 char)

Line 7: Number of parameters (integers) to be read (156 at present)

Lines 8-23: 156 parameters, with the following meaning:

 

1

Total number of sub spectra (detectors + monitors + measurements)

2

Length of sub spectrum (in words)

3

Type of the first parameter block (1 : TEXT)

4

Number of words in this first block

5

Type of the second parameter block (2 : PAR1)

6

Number of words in this second block

7

Type of the third parameter block (3 : PAR2)

8

Number of words in this third block

9-39

Not yet used; set to zero

40

Number of overflows

41

Starting block overflows

42

Starting block of first parameter block (TEXT)

43

Number of bytes in first parameter block

44

Number of element in first block

45

Starting block of second parameter block (PAR1)

46

Number of bytes in second parameter block

47

Number of element in second block

48

Starting block of third parameter block (PAR2)

49

Number of bytes in third parameter block

50

Number of element in third block

51-147

Not used

148

Number of first recorded spectrum

149

Flag 1: 3 (integer*4)

150

Not used

151

Actual file length

152

Initial file length

153

Not used

154

Total number of spectra

155

Length of sub spectrum: 256

156

Starting point of data read from multichannel memory

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