Isotope Explorer user's manual
Isotope Explorer user's manual
By
S.Y.F. Chu*,
H. Nordberg*#,
R.B. Firestone*,
L.P. Ekström#*,
and P. Kanjanarat*
* Isotopes Project,
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
# Department of Physics, Lund University
Isotope Explorer version 2.0, December, 1996
Contents
- Abstract
- Getting started
- Reading data
- Viewing data
- Introduction
- The program
- The databases
- The Table of Isotopes databases
- Transfer and installation
- Data transfer via the Internet
- Local database
- Helper application for a web browser
- Isotope Explorer files
- Registration
- Accessing data
- Internet transfer
- Data from local disk or CD-ROM
-
Isotope Explorer as helper application for a web browser
- Level scheme mode
- The menu bar
- The tool bar
- Data selection
- Shortcuts
- Coincidences
- Logical operations
- Selecting bands
- Selecting levels
- Table mode
- The menu bar
- The tool bar
- Controlling table appearance
- Plot mode
- Text editor
- The chart interface and script language
- The menu bar
- The tool bar
- The chart files
- The script language
- Predefined functions
- Chart user-interface
- The data files
- Literature references
- NSR data
- Preview and printing
- Technical issues
- Data transfer
- Security
- The ISOEXPL.INI file
- Features of Isotope Explorer
- Changes and enhancements in versions later than 2.0
- Known problems with the current version
- Future developments
- Acknowledgments
- Disclaimer
- Notes and references
Appendices
- Reporting bugs
- Chart files for Isotope Explorer
Other documents
- The Isotope Explorer Home Page
- Current information, tour of Isotope Explorer
Abstract
Isotope Explorer (previously VuENSDF) is a 32-bit Windows program for retrieving,
displaying, listing, manipulating and searching nuclear
structure and decay data. Information from the
Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data file
(ENSDF) and the Table of Isotopes
databases (nuclear structure data, radioactive decay data
and superdeformed bands data) is
available for viewing with Isotope Explorer.
Data are traceable to the original publications through
Keynumbers contained in ENSDF. These Keynumbers are decoded
into complete references using the Nuclear Science References
(NSR) file. The NSR file can also be searched on authors.
Isotope Explorer also supports a chart data format and a chart interface,
which is an alternate user interface for selecting nuclides, bands, etc.,
and also a general tool for generating nuclear charts.
Together with the script language the Chart interface is a
very powerful tool for displaying systematic trends of nuclear properties,
for producing custom-made nuclear charts and for selecting data to
be displayed by the program.
In addition to displaying ENSDF data, Isotope Explorer can retrieve nuclear
properties from the ENSDF database with the script language. These
properties can then be displayed as color coding of a nuclear chart.
Functions defined in the script language allow calculations to be
performed with the data retrieved.
Isotope Explorer is very flexible with regard to data sources:
- it can access the Table of Isotopes databases directly
via the Internet from the Berkeley or Lund servers
- it can use locally stored data (e.g. from the Table of Isotopes
CD-ROM)
- it can operate as a helper application for WWW browsers, allowing
data in the ENSDF format available on the WWW to be accessed remotely
- it can read chart data and display horizontal properties by color-coding
a nuclear chart
For a quick introduction to the program, please try the
Tour of Isotope Explorer.
Comments to:
F Chu (program),
P Ekström (manual)
All contents copyright © 1996,
Isotopes Project,
Berkeley Lab. All rights reserved.
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