Isotope Explorer user's manual

Isotope Explorer user's manual

Getting started

Reading data

When Isotope Explorer is launched, it displays an empty screen, and most menus are disabled. If you have ENSDF files stored locally, you may open them with File, Open local file... on the menu bar, and the level scheme of the first data set in the file will be displayed on the screen. You can also choose to open a chart file, and the program will display a nuclear chart instead of a level scheme.

Alternatively you may select nuclide clicking the Nucleus button. Depending on the setting in the Configuration menu, the program will then look for the data on the local disk or transfer them via the Internet. The latter obviously requires an active connection to the Internet.

Viewing data

Isotope Explorer has many options to change the way the data are displayed. You may select smaller sets of the data, e.g. rotational bands (Data, Band...), or you may elect to see the data in a table form (AddView..., Table).

Isotope Explorer can also display nuclear charts, with data either from chart files or retrieved from ENSDF with a script language.

The edit mode is, at present, mostly a debugging tool.

Comments to: F Chu (program), P Ekström (manual)