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<TITLE>Running TRICS with a Single Counter</TITLE>
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<H1>Running TRICS with a Single Counter</H1>
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<P>
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In this mode TRICS simulates a conventionell four circle diffractometer much
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like a x-ray diffractometer as commercially available. The tasks which have
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to be solved are:
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<ul>
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<li>Locate Reflections
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<li>Index reflections and refine a UB-matrix.
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<li>Measure a couple of reflections.
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<li>Furthermore there are some specialities.
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<h3>Locate Reflections</h3>
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If you know x-ray single crystal diffractometers you'll expect sophisticated
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reflection search procedures here. Little is available in this field in
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SICS. It was deemed inapropriate for neutron research. The first reflections
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must be found by hand. Something which may help in this is a quick scan
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facility which allows to run a motor and print counts while the motor is
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moving. This can be invoked by a command like this:
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susca var start end time
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The parameters are:
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<li>var: the motor or variable to scan.
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<li>start: the start position from which to scan.
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<li>end: the end position for this scan.
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<li>time: The maximum counting time.
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Be aware that this is inprecise and liable to changes in the source current.
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But it may help to locate the aproximate position of a peak.
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Once a peak has been found, its position can be optimised and centered with the
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<a href="optimise.htm">peak optimiser</a>. Dor not forget to put all
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collimators in and to close all slits before optimizing. This is in
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order to improve accuracy.
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Once one reflection has been located, others might be located using the
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<a href="Conescan.html">conescan</a> method when the lattice constants
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are known. Do not forget to open all slits and to remove all
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collimators for this.
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If two reflections and the cell constants are known, a provisional UB
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matrix may be <a href="ubcalc.htm">calculated</a> with the UBCALC
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module. UBCALC can also calculate the UB matrix from three reflections
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from scratch.
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<P>
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With a prvisional UB matrix determined it is advisable to locate and
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optimise another 20 reflections in order to do UB matrix
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refinement. During this time, reflections may be stored using the
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rliste module:
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<DL>
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<DT>rliste clear
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<DD> clears all entries from the list
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<DT>rliste store
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<DD>saves the current diffractometer position into the list
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<DT>rliste write file
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<DD>Writes the contents of the reflection list to the file specified.
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</DL>
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</p>
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<h3>Indexing Reflections and Refining UB-Matrix</h3>
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<p>
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For these purposes the external programs <a href="illprog.txt">INDEX and
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RAFIN </a> are provided. These programs are courtesy of the ILL, France.
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<h3>Measuring Reflections</h3>
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<p>
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Before measuring reflections a list of reflections to measure must be
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created. This is done with the external program
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<a href="illprog.txt">HKLGEN</a>. Then reflections this reflection list can
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be fed into SICS using the <a href="mesure.htm">mess </a> command. mess
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creates two output files: a .col file containing the reflection profiles of
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all the relfections and a .dat files which contains the
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HKL,F,sig(F),TH,OM,CH,PH for each reflection. Intensity has then be
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integrated within SICS. The .col files can be processed by the program
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REFRED which allows to perform more advanced data reduction chores and has a
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choice of integration methods for reflection data. Please note, that SICS
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does not automatically measure standard reflections. It is your task to add
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suitable standard reflections into the reflection list.
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<h2>Special Commands</h2>
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<p>
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As of current this section only holds the <a href="hklscan.htm">hklscan
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commmand</a> which allows to express a scan in Miller indizes. This is
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in fact a scan in reciprocal space.
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