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Title: The NeXus data format

Journal Article · · Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online)
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  1. Paul Scherrer Inst. (PSI), Villigen (Switzerland)
  2. Rutherford Appleton Lab., Oxfordshire (England)
  3. Dowling College, Shirley, NY (United States)
  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  5. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  6. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  7. Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie Gmb, Berlin (Germany)
  8. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
  9. ANSTO, New South Wales (Australia)
  10. Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire (England)
  11. KEK, Ibaraki (Japan)
  12. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
  13. Forschungszentrum Julich, Garching (Germany)
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NeXus is an effort by an international group of scientists to define a common data exchange and archival format for neutron, X-ray and muon experiments. NeXus is built on top of the scientific data format HDF5 and adds domain-specific rules for organizing data within HDF5 files, in addition to a dictionary of well defined domain-specific field names. The NeXus data format has two purposes. First, it defines a format that can serve as a container for all relevant data associated with a beamline. This is a very important use case. Second, it defines standards in the form of application definitions for the exchange of data between applications. NeXus provides structures for raw experimental data as well as for processed data.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; AC52-06NA25396; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-06CH11357; 89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1225003
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1212697; OSTI ID: 1544712
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-14-27449; JACGAR
Journal Information:
Journal of Applied Crystallography (Online), Vol. 48, Issue 1; ISSN 1600-5767
Publisher:
International Union of CrystallographyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 89 works
Citation information provided by
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References (3)

Data Formats and Analysis Codes–New Software for μSR journal January 2012
The application of the NeXus data format to ISIS muon data journal February 2003
McStas 1.7 - a new version of the flexible Monte Carlo neutron scattering package journal July 2004

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Related Subjects

96 KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
NeXus data format
data exchange
data archiving
platform-independent
HDF5