McStas
A neutron ray-trace simulation package. McStas is a general tool for simulating neutron scattering instruments and experiments.
| Website | http://mcstas.org/ |
| Licenses | GNU General Public License 2.0 |
| Categories | Instrument Simulation Sample simulation Optics simulation Powder Diffraction Single Crystal Diffraction Spectroscopies |
| Software Requirements | A C compiler. User Interfaces require e.g. any of Perl/Tk/PGPLOT, Python/Qt, Matlab, Gnuplot, ... |
| Hardware Requirements | - | Platforms | Mac OS Linux Windows |
| Languages | C Perl Python |
| Input Formats | Text |
| Output Formats | NeXus m (MATLAB) R Text VRML VTK X3D |
| Contact email | mcstas-users@mcstas.org |
| How-to | |
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Download and Install: http://mcstas.org/download/ Documentation: http://mcstas.org/documentation/ Git repository: https://github.com/McStasMcXtrace/McCode |
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| Documentation / Tutorials | |
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Tutorial: http://mcstas.org/documentation/tutorial/ |
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| References | |
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K. Lefmann and K. Nielsen, Neutron News 10, 20, (1999). P. Willendrup, E. Farhi and K. Lefmann, Physica B, 350 (2004) 735. |
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| Instruments | This software is not associated to any instruments. |
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