The CNF files are in Genie2k's special format, while the TKA files are basically exported ASCII spectra (list of newline-separated bin contents, with some comments at the beginning containing extra info and prefixed by a # each).
The TKA spectra are not immediately energy calibrated, but contain valid energy calibration information in their comments-header.

The actual measurements are managed by some script/program, which divides a measurement into n parts of a set length t in time, which is called cycles "n*t cycles".
The script stops each of the n sub-measurements so they are exactly t long (e.g. 6h = 21600s, not parts of a second less or more) and immediately starts the next one, so there is no gap in time in between the measurements.
The last cycle automatically ends after t as well, hence you loose some potential extra measurements time (the sample is still in the setup, but the DAQ is not running anymore), but gain the immediate comparability between all cycles (also it's "easier" to calculate activity, because the measurement times are standardized and not individual to each measurement).
Note that t is the real time, but the DAQ is actually only live for a fraction of this time (e.g. t-2s) due to pulse pile-up, which is given in the file header.
There can be a gap of ~1 second in between the runs (just the time it takes the computer to stop the MCA, save the data, start a new run), but this is a minimal effect on our time scales. 

Besides the cycles there have been additional measurements on some of the samples to gather more statistics (e.g. Sm#8 2 times and Au#9 4 times).

There have been unrelated indium and thulium measurements during the beam time, which should just be ignored in the logbook.
For this reason other gold foils have been remeasured in another setup (Au#2 and Au#4 with Detector 2), which should be ignored (the spectra files are not included here anyway).

The file "ArchivedData_20210519_0528" is a log from the HIgS accelerator control system. 
It contains the electron beam energy, the electron current in the storage ring, and the "gamma rate," which is just the rate measured by a plastic scintillator paddle placed in the beam.
This is useful because this system records data all the time, even when our DAQ is off.
It could be used to get the exact time of any unplanned accelerator outages or to account for any fluctuations in the beam flux over time, which could impact the activation.
The HIγS beam is very stable, so this typically isn't necessary, especially not with the here considered long half-lives of the produced daughter-isotopes.

Page 90 of the logbook is blank and therefore not included in the scans.

The measurement start times given in the TKA files and logbook are the MCA PC time, which is 53 s faster than NIST time ("PC time = +53.47 s NIST time" note in the paper logbook), which is quasi identical with the ELOG times.
For our long half-lives, 53 s won't make much of a difference, but it was noted anyway.

Our targets had a slight offset relative to the usual counting position.
The source measurements was offset by the exact same amount, so all efficiencies labeled "HIGS_NRF" are correct for our analysis.
The note in the logbook is just for TUNL's future reference, so they know our geometry was slightly different than their typical geometry (in case anyone else looks at these efficiency files).

There is one MCA5 measurement "AU_6_HIGS_NRF_12.4MEV_1_MCA5_*", which was a mistake and should be ignored.

The Activation-Measurement-Setup-Documents contains some documents on parts of the setup.
Contact Kiriaki Prifti or Sean W. Finch if you need more information on the setup.
