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The Detector_pn Component

Block of a attenuating material

Identification

• Site:
• Author: Maria Thomsen (mariath@fys.ku.dk)
• Origin: NBI, KU
• Date: Jan 24, 2011

Description

A scintillator detector model taking photoabsorption efficiency into account. As such it consitututes a
more physical version of the PSD_monitor. Only direct absorption is taken into account.

Example: Detector_pn(restore_xray=restore_flag,filename="detector_Si", material_datafile="Si.txt", xwidth=1e-2, yheight=1e-2,zdepth=1e-5)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
material_datafile	str	File where the material parameters for the scintillator may be found. Format is similar to what may be found off the NIST website.	"Be.txt"
nx	m	Number of pixel columns.	90
ny	m	Number of pixel rows.	90
filename	str	Name of file in which to store the detector image.	""
restore_xray		If set, the monitor does not influence the xray state.	0
xwidth	m	Width of block.	1e-2
yheight	m	Height of block.	1e-2
zdepth	m	Thickness of block.	1e-6

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for Detector_pn.comp.
• material datafile obtained from http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/ffast/ffast.pl

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