Denis Rancourt
The Mössbauer spectral analysis software "Recoil for Windows", developed in my laboratory is now available for free, and I have agreed to facilitate its distribution. However, no further development is planned, and no technical support will be given.
TO GET STARTED, read the following:
By Denis G. Rancourt
June 2019
denisrancourt.ca
The original Recoil was launched by Dr. Ken Lagarec and me, from my laboratory at the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 1998. Its less-user-friendly predecessor, MOSMOD, was also independently coded in my laboratory, and was used to fully test Recoil. Recoil has become one of the most widely used spectral analysis packages among scientists in many fields, and continues to be in high demand.
Dr. Lagarec has kindly suggested that the software can now be distributed freely, and I have agreed to facilitate its distribution. However, no further development is planned, and no technical support will be given.
Send an email to denis.rancourt@gmail.com with the Subject-line “Recoil”.
In the text of your email, please include: your name, your work or study address, and your position. State that you would like to receive the free Recoil software.
Then, as soon as I can, I will send you a link to the files, and the Serial Number that you need.
• Create a directory on the hard-drive of your Windows computer. Call it what you want, such as “Recoil”.
• Put all the program files (Recoil.exe, *.dll, *.ini, Recoil.pdf, and so on) that you download from the link into that same one directory.
• Run Recoil by double-clicking the “Recoil.exe” file in that directory.
That’s it. Recoil will fire up. On Windows 10 and later versions, the on-line Windows help app will not work, but everything else is the same.
Read the Recoil manual (included in the files I send you, or download from https://denisrancourt.ca/Recoil-Manual.pdf) to get you started. Try whatever seems intuitive. Read the original research journal articles.
I will also send you a few examples of data, and copies of the scientific articles that explain the methods and algorithms used in Recoil.
• If you wish to reference the Recoil software research tool itself, then reference the user manual, as:
Recoil − Mössbauer spectral analysis software for Windows, K Lagarec and DG Rancourt, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 1998, version 1.0, pp. 43.
• If you use the Voigt-based fitting module in Recoil, then reference the scientific article for this module:
“Voigt-based methods for arbitrary-shape static hyperfine parameter distributions in Mössbauer spectroscopy”, DG Rancourt and J-Y Ping, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B (NIMB) B58, 1991, 85-97.
• If you use the extended Voigt-based fitting module in recoil, then reference the scientific article for this module:
“Extended Voigt-Based Analytic Lineshape Method for Determining N-Dimensional Correlated Hyperfine Parameter Distributions in Mössbauer Spectroscopy”, K Lagarec and DG Rancourt, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B (NIMB) 129, 1997, 266-280.
• If you use the absorber ideal-thickness calculator in Recoil, then reference the scientific article for this calculation:
“Mössbauer Absorber Thickness for Accurate Site Populations in Iron Bearing Minerals”, DG Rancourt, AM McDonald, AE Lalonde, and J-Y Ping, American Mineralogist 78, 1993, 1-7.