ANSTO's research capabilities, led by the OPAL nuclear research reactor and associated instruments provide access to users investigating areas as diverse as materials, life sciences, climate change and mining/engineering.
Data Reduction and Analysis
Data Reduction and Analysis
Data analysis is supported through user training which is provided at the AINSE Neutron Scattering Winter School (http://www.ainse.edu.au/events2/winter_schools).
To correct, reduce and analyse experiment data from Quokka, the Igor Pro software from WaveMetrics is used and extended with specially designed macros to simplify the process.
Igor Pro can be downloaded from WaveMetrics homage (http://www.wavemetrics.com). A trial version is available which allows the free use of Igor Pro for 30 days.
After Igor Pro has been installed and tested, ANSTO’s Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) reduction macros can be installed with the following program: http://www.nbi.ansto.gov.au/quokka/macros/IgorMacros.exe
ANSTO’s SANS reduction macros are based on the SANS & USANS macros from NIST, which can be found at the NIST homepage (http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/programs/sans/data/red_anal.html).
Users who wish to utilize SANS macros provided by ANSTO or NIST are requested to reference the paper by Steve Kline describing the software (Kline J. Appl. Cryst. 2003).
For support, contact the Quokka instrument scientists: quokka@ansto.gov.au
Data Access
The Bragg Institute promotes access to data collected during scientific experiments. See http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute/users/data_archiving
Access to data is available at ANSTO during the 3 year embargo period via the following options:
- Login to https://tardis.nbi.ansto.gov.au where you can search through your data and download as required.
- Access a secure copy at scp.nbi.ansto.gov.au using a client such as FileZilla (see http://filezilla-project.org/download.php) or winSCP (see http://winscp.net/eng/download.php).
If you are unable to login, contact the Bragg Institute User Office Bragg-UserOffice@ansto.gov.au
It is ANSTO policy that after a 3 year embargo period, data becomes publicly accessible. This can be viewed as "Public Experiments" at https://tardis.nbi.ansto.gov.au. Metadata relating to the experimental data is copied to Research Data Australia http://researchdata.ands.org.au. In encouraging this practice ANSTO has helped many researchers forge new collaborations.