mescal
Hello and welcome to mescal, your favourite software to analyze data from the HERMES-SP payloads.
Setup
The packages lmfit, joblib and rich, between others, are required to use mescal.
We provide an environment.yml file to easily set up a conda environment in which you can run mescal.
To create the environment from the environment.yml file, move to mescal's folder from your terminal and execute:
conda env create -f environment.yml
The command line interface of mescal is best rendered on modern terminal applications. We are redistributing two great modules by petereon@github, beaupy and yakh. All hail petereon and all rights reserved.
If you are working on windows, we suggest using mescal with the new Windows terminal!
Running mescal
The main goal of mescal is to calibrate the SDDs and scintillators of the HERMES's detector.
To launch mescal:
- Move to the mescal directory.
- Activate the mescal environment with
conda activate mescal - Launch
python mescal.py - Follow the instructions on screen.
Mescal can also be used to visualize data acquired with the HERMES detector.
Want to try it?
Here's a sample acquisition!
Need help?
A few options (e.g., output format, DAC presets..) can be activated via command line arguments.
You can check these through mescal's helper: python mescal.py --help.
Uninstalling
conda remove -n mescal --all
It should do, if you followed the steps above.