Overview of web resources for McStas

Get the code, report bugs etc.

• McStas website
• McStas mailinglist subscription (Please enrol!)
• McStas Facebook page (Please follow us!)
• McStas downloads
• McStas+McXtrace GitHub
• McStas+McXtrace issues + bug reporting

Tutorials, howto's, docs

• How McStas works - in 2 minutes
• Tutorial: Build a SANS
• Tutorial: Build a diffractometer (outdated in certain parts)
• McStas manual and component manual Better use mcdoc or the Docs button of your mcgui
• McStas sample model functionality matrix (not always fully up to date)
• McStas and McXtrace GitHub wiki - tutorials, guides and more

McStasScript and Union documentation resources

• McStasScript docs (also includes a Union tutorial)
• Legacy union manual
• Mads Bertelsen PhD Thesis (2017) is a good resource for the Union framework

Neutron scattering + McStas e-learning

• e-learning.pan-training.eu website (free enrolment)
  (formerly known under other names like VNT, e-neutrons, pan-learning etc.)

ESS specific McStas docs
(*-marked ones can only be browsed from an ESS network address, sorry :-) )

• McStas space on ESS confluence (*)
• Running McStas on the ESS DMSC cluster (*) - plus general DMSC cluster info (*)
• MCPL input to describe the ESS source (*)
• 'Benchmarking' website for the ESS_butterfly component

Material from schools

• School-material 2018 and later on GitHub
• Older schools are found elsewhere:
  • Dropbox with materials from the 5-day MDANSE2018 workshop event in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
  • Material from ESS DMSC McStas workshop June 2018
  • Website and materials from a 3-day STFC event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
  • Website and materials from a 3-day ESS event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
  • Website and materials from a 2-day NOBUGS event (including public Dropbox link to presentations etc.)
  • Dropbox with materials from a 5-day event in Bariloche, Argentina