PDViPeR is laid out so that .xye files can be quickly loaded and viewed without delving into the processing options. The processing options are organised within tabs of the panel adjacent to the main plot window.
The Mythen detector array on the AS PD beamline consists of several adjacent strip detectors separated by small gaps, and covering a total angular range of approximately 80°. Consequently, the acquired array of angle-intensity data pairs contains gaps where the detector overlap regions lie. To circumvent this problem two data sets are collected with the detector array offset to capture data in the gap regions. Angle values in the data at the second position are corrected by the Mythen dector control software to approximately align them with angles from the first dataset. Machining tolerances lead to a systematic uncertainty in the offset angle. The data from an individual capture run from the detector therefore contains gaps and some systematic uncertainty in both the angle and intensity values. PDViPeR can merge the two datasets to produce a single contiguous dataset by normalising and offsetting the data, discarding poor data points near the gap edges, and combining all remaining data points or substituting data points from a dataset acquired at the second position that cover the angle range of the gap region of the first position. We call the process of combining all the data points merging and that of substituting data in the gap regions splicing. Finally, PDViPeR can concatenate data from two overlapping 80° ranges to produce a dataset with extended range.
logfile.log entry for each plot written