Peter Willendrup, Peter Christiansen, Kim Lefmann

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McStas release 1.9 and beyond

• Peter Willendrup, Peter Christiansen, Kim Lefmann

Emmanuel Farhi, Klaus Lieutenant
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Agenda

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

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Project status

• 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!)

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ICNS 2006 dissemination

• More than 20 (!) McStas oriented posters _at_ ICNS,
  Sydney!

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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• Project Infrastructure
• New, joint website _at_ www.mcstas.org
• Bugzilla
• VnCS alliance with VITESS

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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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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McStas team (RISØ/ILL) Introducing McStas 1.9
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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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)

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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• Tools
• mcdaemon on Unix, send -USR2 (save) signals to
  running process
• Many usage related adjustments to mcgui

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New stuff in 1.9, november 16th '05

• 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 _at_PSI).
• Many edits of the component manual

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New stuff in 1.9.1 (march 06?)

• 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

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New stuff in 1.10 (autumn 06?)

• JUMPS
• Concentric components
• First polarisation capable components? (Peter
  Christiansen)
• mcresplot for Scilab/Matlab
• mcformat PGPLOT -gt 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 -gt chopper diagrams

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The end...

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

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