McStas sample functionality matrix

McStas sample model functionality-matrix

2024 update in progress

( Original master version was available at the URL https://confluence.esss.lu.se/display/MCSTAS/McStas+sample+model+functionality-matrix )

Status of McStas sample components relevant for McStas 3.4 (Released September 2023)

	McStas sample comp + author info in italic	Model description	Main use areas
1	Incoherent (Vanadium, Plexiglass etc.) McStas team	Simple incoherent scatterer	Generic, imaging
2	Tunelling_sample McStas team / Kim Lefmann	Idem 1, plus tunneling peaks and QE broadening	Quasi-elastic scattering, backscattering
3	PowderN McStas team / Peter Willendrup	Debye-scherrer cones, tabular input (lau / laz)	Powder diffraction, imaging
4	Sample_nxs Mirko Boin, HZB	Debye-scherrer cones, unit-cell / atom input list	Powder diffraction, (future: imaging)
5	Single_crystal McStas team	Bragg spots, tabular input (lau). "Perfect imperfect" single crystal with mosaicity / lattice variation	Single crystal and MX diffraction
6	Sans_spheres (and other similar) McStas team and Martin Cramer Pedersen, KU	Hard spheres in thin solution and other models, defined per-component...	SANS
7	SANS_benchmark2 (and a few other stand-alone models) Heinrich Frielinghaus, FZJ/JCNS	Experimentally-benchmarked model set for SANS	SANS
8	SASview_models  McStas team	"Any" model from SASview / SASmodels	SANS
9	Multilayer_sample Rob Dalgliesh, ISIS STFC	Multilayer-sample (additions of phase via matrix-formalism) with incoherent background	Reflectometry
10	Phonon_simple McStas team / Kim Lefmann	Single-branch acoustic phonon in FCC lattice	Inelastic scattering phonons
11	Isotropic_Sqw McStas team / Emmanuel Farhi	Structure and dynamics in isotropic materials (liquids, powders etc.)	Inelastic scattering, diffraction, isotropic materials, imaging
12	Res_sample McStas team	Resolution-oriented sample component	Generic
13	TOFRes_sample McStas team / Kim Lefmann	Idem Res_sample, with TOF support	Generic
14	Spot_sample Garrett Granroth, SNS/ORNL	Resolution-oriented sample component Dirac delta-functions in (Q and energy)	Inelastic scattering
15	Union components, Mads Bertelsen, ESS	A set of components that allows to build a complex sample/sample environment from basic geometries and physics/material properties	Generic
16	Single_crystal_inelastic Duc Le, ISIS STFC	4D-equivalent of Isotropic_Sqw / Single_crystal	Elastic and inelastic experiments with crystals
17	Magnon_bcc McStas team / Kim Lefmann	FM / AFM magnon in BCC lattice	Inelastic scattering magnon
18	NCrystal_sample Xiao Xiao Cai, DTU Nutech/ESS	Single crystal and powder diffraction, with isotropic inelastic scattering	Powder and Single_crystal diffraction, imaging
19	Single_magnetic_crystal Linda Udby KU, + Erik Knudsen, DTU	Bragg spots from lattice ala Single_crystal plus magnetic lattice. Tabular input (lau)	Single crystal magnetic diffraction
20	"Specular reflectometry" (via Mirror.comp)	Use a reflectivity-curve with e.g. Mirror.comp	Reflectometry
21	Below this line not yet available in repo	Below this line not yet available in repo	Below this line not yet available in repo
22	"Polycrystal" Alberto Cereser + Erik Knudsen, DTU Physics	Engineering-diffraction / imaging oriented multigrain sample	Engineering-diffraction / imaging