Simulating Neutron Protein Crystallography Experiments: Applications to the Development of the NMX Instrument at ESS
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Simulating Neutron Protein Crystallography Experiments: Applications to the Development of the NMX Instrument at ESS
Bertelsen, M.; Willendrup, P. K.; Yoo, S.; Meligrana, A.; McDonagh, D.; Bergmann, J.; Oksanen, E.; Finke, A. D.
AbstractMonte Carlo neutron ray-tracing simulations of time-of-flight (TOF)-Laue neutron macromolecular crystal diffraction (n-MX) using the McStas software package were done for the upcoming NMX Macromolecular Diffractometer at the European Spallation Source. Splitting neutron rays that arrive at the crystal lead to dramatic improvements in event formation with minimal computational overhead. The simulated event probability data was sampled using a new single-pass weighted reservoir sampling method, and processed like real n-MX data using DIALS. The effects of air and beamstop scatter on simulated data was investigated.