Contents

• SLS Detectors Software
  • Which programs can I use to control my detector?
  • How can I control many detectors in parallel or independently?
    • Examples
  • How can I configure the data receiver?
  • What are settings and calibration files for?
    • MYTHEN
    • GOTTHARD
  • How should a configuration file look like?
  • What is the meaning of the file name?
  • Which is the sequence of the acquisition flow?
  • How can I synchronize my detector with the experiment?
  • How can several controllers be synchronized?
  • How can the detector movement and position and I0 readout be customized for my beamline?
  • In which data format are written the data?
    • GOTTHARD
    • EIGER
    • JUNGFRAU
  
  
• General questions about detectors
  • In which X-ray energy range can I use the detector?
    • Sensors
    • Frontend electronics
  • What limits the maximum frame rate?
  
  
• Single photon counting detectors
  • Which detector settings should I choose?
    • MYTHEN
  • How do I chose the comparator threshold?
  • How does the flat field correction work?
    • Why isn't my flat-field flat?
    • Dynamic acquisition of the flat field
  • What happens when I trim the detector?
    • MYTHEN
  • In what consists the energy calibration of the detector?
    • MYTHEN
  • Why should I change the dynamic range of the counters?
  • When should I enable rate correction
    • How can I choose the dead time?
  
  
• Charge Integrating detectors
  • (Dynamic) Gain Switching
  • Pedestals
  • Energy calibration
  • Data processing
  
  
• Angular conversion
  • How is the channel number coverted into angle?
  • How are different positions merged together?
    • Introduction
    • Basic binning
    • Advanced binning
    • Poisson and normal statistics for diffraction
    • Average vs. weighted average
    • Scaling Poisson variates
  • Why can't I properly merge different positions?