DriftCheck

DriftCheck is a python script for the visual inspection of detector drifts using GASPware data.

Requirements

• Python>=3.8
• numpy
• matplotlib
• tqdm

Usage

The DriftCheck code is used to create plots highlighting the time stability of detectors:

./DriftCheck.py -h
usage: DriftCheck.py [-h] [--full] [--write] [--clear] [--dest DESTINATION] [--dets NUM DETS]
                     [--range RANGE RANGE]
                     PATTERN

Create spectra over run number from GASPware matrices.

positional arguments:
  PATTERN              path to and name pattern of matrices

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --full               create .txt files from matrices
  --write              store raw data of plots in .mat files
  --clear              delete created .txt files
  --dest DESTINATION   path where output is stored (default: current location)
  --dets NUM DETS      number of detectors (default: 25)
  --range RANGE RANGE  plot range for data axis (default: 0 8191)

The code expects individual ascii (.txt) files for each run and each detector. If these are not available, 2d matrices with the detector numbers on the first axis and the spectrum of interest on the second can be provided using the option --full. These matrices should be available for each run and have names NAMEXXX.cmat where XXX denotes a three-digit run number. In order to locate them, the name pattern /path/to/NAME has to be handed over to DriftCheck.

The code will then split these matrices and convert them to ascii using the programs cmat and mkascii16k from the GASPware package, respectively. They are stored under the names NAMEXXX_detYY.txt where YY is a two-digit detector number. Ultimately, plots are created for each individual detector.

License

The code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. For details see LICENSE.

Copyright (C) 2021 Tobias Beck (tbeck@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de)