Peter Willendrup, Peter ChristiansenPeter Willendrup, Peter Christiansen, , Kim LefmannKim Lefmann

McStas release 1.9 and beyondMcStas release 1.9 and beyond

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Emmanuel Farhi, Klaus LieutenantEmmanuel Farhi, Klaus Lieutenant

●McStas● Project status● New features in McStas 1.9● New stuff in 1.9.1 and beyond

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● Project status – strengthened efforts● 'New' people: Peter Christiansen, Post doc at Risø from feb 1st. Will work on TS2 instruments and polarized neutron support in McStas (MCNSI input very welcome!)

Project statusProject status

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●More than 20 (!) McStas oriented posters @ ICNS, Sydney!

ICNS 2006 dissemination:ICNS 2006 dissemination:

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● Project Infrastructure:● New, joint website @ www.mcstas.org ● Bugzilla● VnCS alliance with VITESS

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● Web tools:● Web frontend – html based simulation frontend, based

on work by ILL student C. Jean● Will be 'extended' for two different applications:

● DMC PSI Powder machine: Upload powder structure, press the buttons, download virtual powder spectrum. (Beam time applications etc.)

● NMI3/MCNSI Brockhouse phonon simulator. 'Measure your own Nobel prize dataset'

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● Components:● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E.

Farhi)● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...)● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be

integrated in 1 component)● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi

(K. Lieutenant)

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● Components:● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E.

Farhi)● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...)● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be

integrated in 1 component)● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi

(K. Lieutenant)

New stuff in 1.9, november 16New stuff in 1.9, november 16thth '05 '05

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● Components:● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E.

Farhi)● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...)● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be

integrated in 1 component)● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi

(K. Lieutenant)

New stuff in 1.9, november 16New stuff in 1.9, november 16thth '05 '05

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● Components:● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E.

Farhi)● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...)● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be

integrated in 1 component)● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi

(K. Lieutenant)

New stuff in 1.9, november 16New stuff in 1.9, november 16thth '05 '05

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● Components:● PowderN (from Copenhagen University course) ● Isotropic_Sqw / Concentric components – (V. Hugovieux / E.

Farhi)● Intensive tests done on Fermi choppers, Vitess_ChopperFermi (K. Lieutenant, G. Zsigmond)● Source_simple (replacing four similar codes...)● TOF version of Res_sample (TOF resolution functions, will be

integrated in 1 component)

New stuff in 1.9, november 16New stuff in 1.9, november 16thth '05 '05

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● Tools● mcdaemon – on Unix, send -USR2 (save) signals to running

process● Many usage related adjustments to mcgui

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● Documentation:● Improvements to tutorial / teaching material (Copenhagen

University course)

● Will provide 'extended' tutorial, eventually a complete

teaching material for neutron course, build powder

diffractometer (DMC), TAS (Rita-II), SANS (Sans-II @PSI).● Many edits of the component manual

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● Important bugfixes / validation results:● PowderN tested against Squires/Bacon/...● Isotropic_Sqw and PowderN in agreement● GROUP misbehaviour solved

● New contributions:● T. Vanvuure (ILL) – Advanced, physical Realistic PSD detector● -”- Banana detector● Possibly O. Kirstein (Ansto) – PST device● K. Hewitt Klenø (Copenhagen Univ) – Chopper upgrades – see

talk● VRML support in mcdisplay – HTML/VRML format directly

possible only with browser/plugin

New stuff in 1.9.1 (march 06?)New stuff in 1.9.1 (march 06?)

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● JUMPS● Concentric components● First polarisation capable components? (Peter Christiansen)● mcresplot for Scilab/Matlab● mcformat PGPLOT -> other formats● Sources (ILL source: Ageron Tripoli, VITESS)● Volume data (PSD versus time (scan))● More example instruments● Special TOF/TAS class instrument frontends:

● TAS with reciprocal space code – possible collaboration with M Koennecke, PSI, UB matrices etc.

● TOF with chopper phase angles -> chopper diagrams

New stuff in 1.10 (autumn 06?)New stuff in 1.10 (autumn 06?)

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● Many exiting things to do now and in the future... :)

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