Component Manual for the Xray-Tracing Package McXtrace, version 3.10.0

Index

AstroX, 737

Bugs, 44

Concentric components, 212
Contrib, 668

Data files, 38
DFT, 238
Diffraction, 196, 212, 233

Environment variable
    BROWSER, 43
    MCXTAS, 830
    MCXTRACE, 42, 818

imaging, 124
Incoherent elastic scattering, 233

Keyword
    %include, 818
    EXTEND, 42, 69, 299, 820
    GROUP, 820
    MCDISPLAY, 820
    OUTPUT PARAMETERS, 300
    SHARE, 818

Library, 818
    Components
        astrox, 737
        contrib, 668
        data, 40, 830
        misc, 306
        monitors, 245
        obsolete, 732
        optics, 108
        samples, 183
        sasmodels, 370
        share, 818
        sources, 69
        union, 323
    mcxtrace-r, see Library/Run-time
    read_table-lib (Read_Table), 38, 828
    Run-time, 819
        ABSORB, 819
        ALLOW_BACKPROP, 819
        MC_GETPAR, 300, 820
        NAME_CURRENT_COMP, 820
        POS_A_COMP, 820
        POS_A_CURRENT_COMP, 820
        PROP_DL, 819
        PROP_Z0, 819
        RESTORE_XRAY, 820
        ROT_A_COMP, 820
        ROT_A_CURRENT_COMP, 820
        SCATTER, 819
        SCATTERED, 820
        STORE_XRAY, 820
    run-time
        PROP_X0, 819
        PROP_Y0, 819
    Shared, see Library/Components/share

Monitor
    \(4 pi\), 264
    photon counter, 249
Monitors, 245
    Banana shape, 297
    Custom monitoring (user variables, Monitor_nD), 298
    Energy monitor, 252
    Position sensitive detector (PSD), 258
    Position sensitive detector (PSD), coherent, 261
    Position Sensitive Detector (PSD), Energy Selective, 267
    Position sensitive monitor recording mean energy, 298
    PowerPSD, 270
    The All-in-One monitor (Monitor_nD), 290
    Wavelength monitor, 255
Monte Carlo method, 50
    Accuracy, 60
    Direction focusing, 54
    Stratified sampling, 59
Multiple scattering, 233

Obsolete, 732
Optics, 108, 138, 154
    Beam stop, 120
    Filter, 128
    lens, 134, 141, 144, 147, 150
    mask, 124
    mirror, 156, 160, 163
    Mirror plane, 167
    multilayer, mirror, 167
    Point in space (Arm, Optical bench, Coordinate system), 110
    Progress bar, 309
    Slit, 114

Removed x-ray events, 820
Removed xray events, 37

Sample environments, 212
Samples, 183
    Absorption, 192
    Dilute colloid medium, 196
    liquid, diffraction, 238
    Powder, multiple diffraction line, 212
    SAXS, 196
    Single crystal diffraction, 233
SasView, 370
Small angle scattering, 196
Sources, 69
    Continuous source with specified divergence, 86
    Flat surface source, 81
    Point source, 77
    Shadow, 314
    Source_gaussian, 89
    Virtual source, 317
    X-ray tube laboratory source, 93

time resolved, 238
Tomography, 192
Tools
    mcdoc, 43

Union, 323, 790–812
    algorithm, 807
    exit volume, 805
    geometry, 799
    masks, 805
    master, 806
    materials, 799
    processes, 796
    Union_init, 795
    Union_stop, 795