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@INPROCEEDINGS{Schrader:860660,
author = {Schrader, Tobias Erich and Ostermann, Andreas and
Pellegrini, Eric and Fisher, Jonathan and Chapon, Laurent},
title = {{NSXT}ool - new {S}oftware for {D}ata{R}eduction at
{M}onochromatic{S}ingle {C}rystal {D}iffractometers},
reportid = {FZJ-2019-01328},
year = {2018},
abstract = {Neutron single crystal diffraction has a few distinct
differences compared to its x-ray counterpart. The neutron
beam typically has a much larger diameter, on the order of
mm and not µm as with x-rays. Also, the beam divergence is
of the order of 0.7° and not mrad. Another aspect is that
the detectors are different and may have cylindrical- or
banana-like shape which is usually not found with x-ray
diffractometers. Not to mention the relatively high
incoherent scattering background from the crystals, which is
also not so well-known in x-ray crystallography. These
differences lead to a more delicate background substraction
and larger sized Bragg spots really deviating from a simple
circular shape. These differences cry for software
well-adapted to, or written especially for, the neutron as a
probe. But the majority of data reduction software for
integration of the Bragg spots to yield the intensities of
the respective Bragg peaks is written for the x-ray case. In
most cases it is not open source software and only some
publications indicate what it actually does with the data
and how. Data reduction software especially written for
single crystal neutron diffraction is often very old and
inconvenient to use. To overcome these issues, Eric
Pellegrini and Laurent Chapon initiated in 2013 the
development of a software project called NSXTool which was
further joined by Jonathan Fisher (MLZ) in 2016. NSXTool
primarly targets the D19@ILL and BIODIFF@MLZ instruments but
the framework has been designed to handle any instrument
based on a 2D detector. The basic idea of the software is to
provide the whole workflow for standard single crystal data
reduction which consists in 1. data reading 2. peak search
3. peak indexing 4. space group determination 5. peak
integration 5. statistics computation. First results of some
test data sets are shown in this presentation and a
benchmark against the existing software HKL2000 at BIODIFF
is discussed.},
month = {Oct},
date = {2018-10-29},
organization = {JCNS Workshop 2018 Trends and
Perspectives in Neutron
Instrumentation: Advanced simulation
and open source software in neutron
scattering, Tutzing (Germany), 29 Oct
2018 - 1 Nov 2018},
subtyp = {Outreach},
cin = {JCNS-FRM-II / Neutronenstreuung ; JCNS-1},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-FRM-II-20110218 /
I:(DE-Juel1)JCNS-1-20110106},
pnm = {6G15 - FRM II / MLZ (POF3-6G15) / 6G4 - Jülich Centre for
Neutron Research (JCNS) (POF3-623) / 6215 - Soft Matter,
Health and Life Sciences (POF3-621)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G15 / G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6G4 /
G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6215},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)BIODIFF-20140101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/860660},
}