SHAMGAR's OXGOAD: A new approach to the problem of resolution corrections for triple-axis neutron inelastic scattering data using parallel processors

One problem in the analysis of triple-axis neutron inelastic scattering data is the large numerical computations involved in applying full resolution corrections, which in one extreme involves an often-repeated four-dimensional numerical integral. A program called SHAMGAR has been written for an ICL Distributed Array Processor that will both calculate the full convolution of a model scattering function with the resolution function and allow refinement of the model simultaneously to many sets of experimental data by a non-linear least-squares fit. Sample results and performance figures are given.