[mcstas-users] texture simulaion

[Peter Kjær Willendrup]

Dear Dariusz,


On 13 Dec 2018, at 12.14, Dariusz Wardecki - UKRI STFC <dariusz.wardecki at stfc.ac.uk<mailto:dariusz.wardecki at stfc.ac.uk>> wrote:

I am trying to simulate texture in a powder sample using McStas-2.4.1. For this purpose I wanted to use the Single_crystal component with the "powder" parameter. I started with an ideal powder using powder=1 and two monitors PSD_4pi and TOF at 90 deg to test the results. It turns out that when I compare this result with the one from the PowderN component I get completely different distribution of neutrons on the sphere as well as the wrong intensities from TOF.  It does not look like an ideal powder at all.


Does anybody have an idea what I  am doing wrong?


I use the following option:

SPLIT 200 COMPONENT sample = Single_crystal(radius=0.002, yheight=0.01,
         reflections="Al.lau", powder=1, order=1, mosaic=5)

As I remember, the only ever “agreement” that was established between the output of PowderN and Single_crystal was that the scattering pattern looked “about the same” and with the same order of magnitude.

To achieve that, I also remember adjusting mosaicity and delta_d_d to quite excessive values.

I will put on my list for the next release that this is documented by means of an instrument file! As I remember Erik Knudsen also has a solution in the pipe which is more along the lines of actual texture “maps”/distributions, it may be that we can also include that in the next release.

(Whether this will be 2.5.1 or 2.6 or… is currently not completely clear as 2.5 was released yesterday. :-) )


Best and hope this makes things a little clearer,

Peter Willendrup


Peter Kjær Willendrup
Forskningsingeniør, Specialkonsulent
Næstformand for DTU Fysik LSU

DTU Physics


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