Supplemental reading

This page summarises relevant information for development, supplementing this Wiki and the code tree itself.

Please note that most of the PDF-based documentation was written in connection with the McStas 2.x series and is therefore out of sync with today’s code base...

• The McStas manual, chapters
  • 1 (General introduction - optional)
  • 3 (Monte Carlo introduction - optional)
  • 4 (On running McStas)
  • 5 (kernel and meta-language)
  • Appendixes A and B could also be relevant.
• The McStas component manual includes descriptions of underlying physics and algorithms - but only for some components.
• The component manual and the main manual overlap; the chapter Monte Carlo Techniques and simulation strategy is included as chapter 3 in main manual as well as chapter 2 in the component manual.
• For non-physicists and complete newcomers to neutron scattering it is likely also helpful to have a little user experience. We recommend to perform a few simulations as a McStas user - for instance via the McStas tutorial, available via the mcgui -> mcdoc menu