Pixie-4

Scripts to convert outputs from Pixie-4 GUI to ROOT format

Download

$ git clone https://github.com/physusd/pixie-4.git

Convert Igor text file to ROOT format

1. Create Igor text file from the Pixie-4 MCA Spectrum GUI:
2. scp the Igor text file, say spectra.itx, from the Windows PC to a Linux machine with ROOT installed.
3. run the script to convert the Igor text file to ROOT format:

$ ./itx.sh spectra.itx # convert spectra.itx to spectra.root
$ root spectra.root # open spectra.root
ROOT[] .ls // list histograms saved in mca.root
ROOT[] h2->Draw() // draw spectrum from channel 2