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

9.3  The Shadow_output McXtrace Component

Release: McXtrace 0.1

Write x-ray state parameters to SHADOW x-ray event file.

Identification

Description

Detector-like component writing x-ray state parameters to a SHADOW x-ray file. Used to interface McXtrace components or simulations into SHADOW. Each photon is 104 bytes.

Note that when standard output is used, as is the default, no monitors or other components that produce terminal output must be used, or the x-ray output from this component will become corrupted.

Example: Shadow_output(file=”MySource.vit”, bufsize = 10000, progress = 1)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

file

string

Filename of x-ray file to write. Default is standard output

””

bufsize

records

Size of x-ray output buffer

1000

progress

flag

If not zero, output dots as progress indicator

0

Links

Saving the photon rays for use with SHADOW

Documentation pending.