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Definitions of the NeXus Standard File Structure and Contents
https://manual.nexusformat.org/
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NXcontainer is too simple #1385

Open benajamin opened 1 month ago

benajamin commented 1 month ago

NXcontainer uses an example experiment situation to describe the beam passing through multiple windows as well as a capillary that holds the actual sample. The windows are implied to be part of the "container" being specified.

The actual fields of NXcontainer allows only a single material type and container shape, which would not allow it to describe the situation given in the example.

Another problem is that the wall thickness that the beam passes through would need to be calculated from the "packing fraction" and "shape" fields - allowing an alternative description with a "wall thickness" field would be good.