Sunsort reference manual

Sunsort is the data analysis package designed for and used by the CHARISSA collaboration. It provides software to replay and analyse event-by-event data from a variety of sources. This manual provides a reference guide to the features of Sunsort.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Concepts and terms of event-by-event data sorting
3. Starting Sunsort
4. Graphical user interface (GUI)
   • Sunsort main window
   • Sunsort tool window
   • Spectra window
   • Window control window
   • Variables window
   • Write window
   • One dimensional spectrum viewer (sort_xvgr)
   • Two dimensional spectrum viewer (sort_spec2d)
5. Writing a sort code
   • Coding details
6. Reading data
7. Spectrum saving, loading and viewing
8. Filtering data
9. Using windows
10. Variables
11. Batch files and the command line
12. Sort subroutines
    • Vector package
    • Coord package
    • Reaction package
    • Event-struct package
    • RP package
    • Correlation package
    • Structure package
    • ADCs package
    • Markhits package
13. Custom event generation
14. List of supported formats
15. Using Sunsort's spectrum routines in other programs