McXtrace - An X-ray ray-trace simulation package

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The Shadow_output Component

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

Identification

• Site:
• Author: Andrea Prodi
• Origin: Risoe/ILL
• Date: November 21, 2011

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		Filename of x-ray file to write. Default is standard	0
bufsize		Size of x-ray output buffer [records]	1000
progress		If not zero, output dots as progress indicator [flag]	0

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Shadow_output.comp.

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