DMC-User Manual

This is the user documentation for the powder diffractometers DMC and HRPT at the spallation source SINQ situated at the Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland. Both powder diffractometers have a monochromator which directs a monochromatic beam on the sample. The diffracted intensity is collected in a multidetector.

From this page you can go to:

• Program Invocation
• A short command list
• The description of general SICS command, common to all instruments.
• Commands for handling hardware devices .
• A list of DMC specific commands and a list of hardware installed at DMC.
• Commands for handling sample environement devices.
• Some troubleshooting hints.

Instrument Descriptions:

• DMC
• HRPT

Local Contacts:

• DMC: Lukas Keller.
• HRPT: Peter Fischer. HRPT is not yet operational!

Download Manual

• Postscript Format, 246KB.

• LNS Computing home page.
• Laboratory for Neutron Scattering home page.
• SINQ home page.

Last updated: 6-may-1999, Mark Könnecke