CSCAN

Data sorting program for the

Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory

Nuclear Structure group

Yale University


CSCAN is both the online and offline sorting program used by the experimental nuclear structure group. CSCAN sorts data and writes out *.spe (1d), *.mat (2d), and/or *.cub (3d) histograms that can be read by various RadWare programs.

CSCAN works on both UNIX and LINUX systems.

To obtain the most recent version of cscan, download the tar file to the directory of your choice;

CSCAN_Jan04.tar

then

> tar -xvf CSCAN_Jan04.tar
> make

This will make a new directory "CSCAN_Jan04" with the necessary files. Contact Jo Ressler if you have any problems or questions with the download. If you are at Yale, you can copy the tar file from /home/jo/CSCAN/ on galileo, or the file set from /home/jo/CSCAN/CSCAN_Jan04.

All older editions of the CSCAN package can be copied from /home/jo/CSCAN/ on galileo.

If you want to be added (or removed) from the cscan mailing list, please contact Jo Ressler.

The CSCAN user's guide is also updated from time to time -- this document was written primarily for the visiting or inexperienced experimentalist sitting on shift, but may be useful to you;

Shift_Guide.doc

CSCAN links:

Powerpoint slides from CSCAN group meeting talk 29 Jan 2004 (Jo)
Handout from CSCAN group meeting talk 29 Jan 2004

General CSCAN Introduction

WNSL Data Format

WNSL Front End/Data Acquisition

Other Stuff:
CSCAN commands
Pre-sorting data
Sorting a set number of events
Gf3m commands
The 'm' in gf3m
Common spectra
Making time cuts
Spectra stacking and autotonum
Changing the number of addback leaves
AUTOCAL
Run-by-run adcgains
Adding spectra/matrices to the sort
Incrementing or decrementing spectra/matrices
Non-4k x 4k matrices
Matrices with I4 integers
DAMM
Banana gates
Banana gate points from DAMM to CSCAN
Summing matrices
Compressing matrices
Radware Matrices
Radware Cubes
Clock
Timing skew error
Adding a new detctor type
Bad clover leaf: badleaf
Adding code at the start/end of a sort
Adding additional *.inc files
Simpler sorting: tcon.inc
Copying data to/from tape


Last modified January 2004.

Send comments/questions to J. J. Ressler