EFFINO

The program EFFINO (Environment For FItting Nuclear Optics) evaluates Mossbauer absorption and time spectra both in nuclear forward scattering and in grazing incidence reflection geometry. Time-integral prompt and delayed angular scan spectra are also treated. The time spectra are calculated by Fourier transformation from frequency to time domain. The electric quadrupole and magnetic dipole fields at the nuclear sites are considered static at present. The specimen in both forward scattering and grazing incidence is assumed to be a multilayer, with individual thickness and interface roughness (the latter only for the grazing incidence case at present) and electronic index of refraction. Up to eight different layers plus eight repetition periods of those layers are treated. Each layer may contain zero to eight nuclear sites (zero in all layers being prompt X-ray reflectivity), with their own effective thickness or (for grazing incidence) their own complex nuclear index of refraction. From the forward scattering amplitude, a differential 4 x 4 propagation matrix is constructed for each layer. Several experimental spectra of the same or different type(s) can be fitted simultaneously. Correlations between parameters of the same or of different spectra can be introduced.