McStas and Mantid integration

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the successful integration of McStas, a neutron instrument simulation software, with Mantid, a data reduction framework, enabling enhanced analysis of neutron scattering data from large-scale facilities.

Contribution

It presents the first known interoperability between McStas and Mantid, linking instrument simulation with data reduction for improved neutron scattering analysis.

Findings

Successful linkage of McStas and Mantid software.

Examples of enhanced data analysis from combined simulations and reduction.

Potential for improved correction and interpretation of neutron data.

Abstract

McStas and Mantid are two well established software frameworks within the neutron scattering community. McStas has been primarily used for simulating the neutron transport of instruments, while Mantid has been primarily used for data reduction. We report here the status of our work done on the interoperability between the instrument simulation software McStas and the data reduction software Mantid. This provides a demonstration of how to successfully link together two software that otherwise have been developed independently, and in particular here show how this has been achieved for an instrument simulation software and a data reduction software. This paper will also provide examples of some of the expected future enhanced analysis that can be achieved from combining accurate instrument and sample simulations with software for correcting raw data. In the case of this work for raw data collected at large scale neutron facilities.