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The SimplePowderDIffractometer Instrument

Instrument short description A simple monochromatic powder diffractometer with variable bandwidth, aluminium sample container with powder sample (default nickel powder).

Identification

• Site: e
• Author: Linda Udby
• Origin: Your institution
• Date: 26/02/2015

Description

A simple monochromatic powder diffractometer with variable bandwidth, collimation, aluminium sample container and powder sample.
The sample container (Al can) is optional.
A banana detector records scattering agles [20,100]

Example: mcrun SimplePowderDIffractometer.instr coll=40, container=1

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
lambda0	AA	The mean value of incoming wavelegths (Gaussian distribution)	1
dlambda	AA	Gaussian sigma of incoming wavelength distribution	0.005
coll	arcmin	horizontal collimation	120
container	1	When >0 a 2mm thick Al pressed powder can is inserted around the sample	0
sample	1	0=Ni, 1=Fe, 2=SiO2, 3=C_diamond, otherwise empty	0

Links

• Source code for SimplePowderDiffractometer.instr.
• http://vnt.nmi3.org/mcstas-web

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