Compy: The CoMPASS Python Companion

Introduction

Compy is a Python package for easily accessing and analyzing data acquired using CAEN Multi-PArameter Spectroscopy Software (CoMPASS). Compy takes as input the CoMPASS directories where experimental data is stored and processes the settings, spectra, and data files, storing them in a CompassRun object. Compy currently can only process data saved as either .csv or .bin files. Compy enables user filtering of data by energy and/or PSD cut and easy plotting of un/filtered energy/TOF/PSD spectra.

Scripts

Included with the compy package are several scripts for commonly desired processes, such as plotting CoMPASS spectra, manually calculating TOF from signal and reference channels, and enabling user cuts.

compy-run

The compy-run script provides a quick way of reading in CoMPASS data, merging related runs, plotting spectra, and saving the CoMPASS data to a pickle file for easy access later in Python.