Component Manual for the Xray-Tracing Package McXtrace, version 3.8.6

Index

AstroX, 729

Bugs, 43

Concentric components, 211
Contrib, 660

Data files, 37
DFT, 237
Diffraction, 195, 211, 232

Environment variable
    BROWSER, 42
    MCXTAS, 794
    MCXTRACE, 41, 782

imaging, 123
Incoherent elastic scattering, 232

Keyword
    %include, 782
    EXTEND, 41, 68, 298, 784
    GROUP, 784
    MCDISPLAY, 784
    OUTPUT PARAMETERS, 299
    SHARE, 782

Library, 782
    Components
        astrox, 729
        contrib, 660
        data, 39, 794
        misc, 305
        monitors, 244
        obsolete, 724
        optics, 107
        samples, 182
        sasmodels, 364
        share, 782
        sources, 68
        union, 320
    mcxtrace-r, see Library/Run-time
    read_table-lib (Read_Table), 37, 792
    Run-time, 783
        ABSORB, 783
        ALLOW_BACKPROP, 783
        MC_GETPAR, 299, 784
        NAME_CURRENT_COMP, 784
        POS_A_COMP, 784
        POS_A_CURRENT_COMP, 784
        PROP_DL, 783
        PROP_Z0, 783
        RESTORE_XRAY, 784
        ROT_A_COMP, 784
        ROT_A_CURRENT_COMP, 784
        SCATTER, 783
        SCATTERED, 784
        STORE_XRAY, 784
    run-time
        PROP_X0, 783
        PROP_Y0, 783
    Shared, see Library/Components/share

Monitor
    \(4 pi\), 263
    photon counter, 248
Monitors, 244
    Banana shape, 296
    Custom monitoring (user variables, Monitor_nD), 297
    Energy monitor, 251
    Position sensitive detector (PSD), 257
    Position sensitive detector (PSD), coherent, 260
    Position Sensitive Detector (PSD), Energy Selective, 266
    Position sensitive monitor recording mean energy, 297
    PowerPSD, 269
    The All-in-One monitor (Monitor_nD), 289
    Wavelength monitor, 254
Monte Carlo method, 49
    Accuracy, 59
    Direction focusing, 53
    Stratified sampling, 58
Multiple scattering, 232

Obsolete, 724
Optics, 107, 137, 153
    Beam stop, 119
    Filter, 127
    lens, 133, 140, 143, 146, 149
    mask, 123
    mirror, 155, 159, 162
    Mirror plane, 166
    multilayer, mirror, 166
    Point in space (Arm, Optical bench, Coordinate system), 109
    Progress bar, 308
    Slit, 113

Removed x-ray events, 784
Removed xray events, 36

Sample environments, 211
Samples, 182
    Absorption, 191
    Dilute colloid medium, 195
    liquid, diffraction, 237
    Powder, multiple diffraction line, 211
    SAXS, 195
    Single crystal diffraction, 232
SasView, 364
Small angle scattering, 195
Sources, 68
    Continuous source with specified divergence, 85
    Flat surface source, 80
    Point source, 76
    Shadow, 311
    Source_gaussian, 88
    Virtual source, 314
    X-ray tube laboratory source, 92

time resolved, 237
Tomography, 191
Tools
    mcdoc, 42

Union, 320