This class is used to allow a logical grouping of detector elements (e.g. which tube, bank or group of banks) to be recorded in the file. As well as allowing you to e.g just select the "left" or "east" detectors, it may also be useful for determining which elements belong to the same PSD tube and hence have e.g. the same dead time. For example, if we had "bank1" composed of "tube1", "tube2" and "tube3" then group_names would be the string "bank1, bank1/tube1, bank1/tube2,bank1/tube3" group_index would be {1,2,3,4} group_parent would be {-1,1,1,1} The mapping array is interpreted as group 1 is a top level group containing groups 2, 3 and 4 A group_index array in NXdetector give the base group for a detector element. Comma separated list of name Unique ID for group. A group_index array in NXdetector give the base group for a detector element. Index of group parent in the hierarchy: -1 means no parent (i.e. a top level) group Code number for group type e.g. bank=1, tube=2 etc.