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Shiver uses multi-dimensional event workspaces as an intermediate data storage. These are neutron events labeled by the reciprocal space coordinates. Once all the parameters are set and valid, one can click on the Generate button, to create and save an MD event workspace. Once the process is done, the workspace will appear in the list in the Main window. One can also Save configuration as a python file.

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Raw data files

There are two ways to choose the raw data files. The standard way is to navigate to the folder, then click (or shift+click, or ctrl+click, as appropriate) to select. The second option, if the appropriate metadata was included during acquisition, is to use the ONCat database.

Data type and location

The user must enter a name for the workspace to be created, and a location to save the file. The file name will be the same as the workspace name, plus the .nxs extension.

There are three types of processing:

Reduction parameters

Users can specify additional reduction parameters. A Mask file is a processed Mantid NeXus file. The Normalization file can also contain a mask, but it also contains the efficiency of the detectors, measured using some incoherent scatterer (usually Vanadium or TiZr).

The incident energy Ei and the time offset at the moderator T0 are automatically calculated from the monitors or from metadata in the file. However, if these are incorrect, one can just override them.

The Sample options is required to set up lattice parameters and orientation.

The Polarization Options is used for HYSPEC measurements to set polarization state, flipping ratio, and, optionally, to overide the status of the supermirror analyzer.