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SaveNexusPD v1

Summary

Save powder diffraction data to a NeXus file

See Also

SaveNexus

Properties

Name	Direction	Type	Default	Description
InputWorkspace	Input	Workspace	Mandatory	Workspace to save
OutputFilename	Input	string	Mandatory	Name of the savefile. Allowed extensions: [‘.h5’]
NXentry	Input	string		Overrides the NXentry name from the workspace name
DataType	Input	string	float32	All data saved will be converted to this type. Allowed values: [‘float32’, ‘float64’]
Compression	Input	string	gzip	Algorithm for compressing data. Allowed values: [‘gzip’, ‘lzf’, ‘None’]
WriteMomentumTransfer	Input	boolean	True	Add the momentum transfer (Q) axis to the file
ProtonChargeUnits	Input	string	uA.hour	Allowed values: [‘uA.hour’, ‘C’, ‘pC’]
Append	Input	boolean	False

Description

The file created by this algorithm saves a single workspace in a single NXentry of a NeXus file. The x-axes are saved in time-of-flight, d-spacing, and (optionally) momentum transfer. The file is formatted to support the rules for NXdata, NXdetector, and simple plotting. Fields that appear to be in the file twice are actually hard links to the same object. The format of the file (for a workspace with a single spectrum is described with the tree (starting inside the NXentry)

• NXinstrument

  • NXmoderator

    • distance - commonly referred to as L1 in diffraction

  • NXdetector

    • data

    • errors

    • tof

    • dspacing

    • Q - values are stored in reverse so they are parallel to the data array

    • distance - commonly referred to as L2 in diffraction

    • polar_angle - commonly referred to as two-theta in diffraction

    • azimuthal_angle - out of plane angle

• NXdata

  • data

  • errors

  • tof

  • dspacing

  • Q

• proton_charge the accumulated charge for the data

A description of the NeXus coordinate system contains images describing the coordinates.

Categories: AlgorithmIndex | DataHandling\Nexus

Source

Python: SaveNexusPD.py