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The ESS_moderator Component
A parametrised pulsed source for modelling ESS long pulses.
Identification
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- Author: P Willendrup and E Klinkby, February 2014, derived from K Lefmann ESS_moderator_long
- Origin: DTU
- Date:
Description
Produces a time-of-flight spectrum, from the ESS parameters Chooses evenly in lambda, evenly/exponentially decaying in time Adapted from ESS_moderator_long by: K Lefmann, 2001 Updates and simplified interface:
- The spectrum from the source(s) is defined via the sourcedef string input parameter which allows these values:
- sourcedef="2001", legacy "Mezei moderators" from the original F. Mezei documents "ESS reference moderator characteristics for generic instrument performance evaluation", but rescaled to ESS TDR frequency, pulselength and power.
- sourcedef="TDR", Mezei moderators, with a wavelength-dependent correction term to the cold flux, derived from 2012 MCNPX calculations by ESS neutronics group. Corrections calculated by K Lieutenant (Vitess) and implemented here by E Klinkby. NOTE: uses the 2001 brilliance for the thermal moderator!
- sourcedef="2014", updated brilliance using formulation by Troels Schoenfeldt, including support for the "pancacke", i.e. flat geometry.
- sourcedef="2015", updated brilliance using formulation by Troels Schoenfeldt, new butterfly baseline.
- The component can use target_index for focusing to a given beam port. Use an Arm() and ROTATED to position relatively to the moderator.
- The component relies on the new ess_source-lib which is expected to become further enriched during design-finaliziation and construciton of the ESS.
Note that this component does not implement "engineering reality" and currently uses a coordinate system centered on the moderator assembly. An updated moderator component which references the "Moderator focus coordinate system" will be released later during the spring of 2016.
Derived from ESS_moderator_long which was debugged intensively against Mezei note (4/12 2000) and VitESS @ Rencurel 2006. ----------------------------------------------- Correction by J. Saroun, NPI Rez: 1) version 2015: accepts negative port angles 2) version 2015: weight by cosine of the port angle Warning: The negative beamport angle is not taken into acccount by mcplot %VALIDATION Mezei-modererators validated against VitESS and Mezei note (4/12 2000) @ Rencurel 2006 Benchmarked against multiple versions of ESS moderator group simulation data 2013-2015
Input parameters
Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.| Name | Unit | Description | Default | |
| isleft | 1 | Fraction of thermal neutrons generated at the "left" moderator slab in case of "2013" or "2014" | 0.9 | |
| Lmin | AA | Lower edge of wavelength distribution | ||
| Lmax | AA | Upper edge of wavelength distribution | ||
| cold_frac | 1 | Fraction of neutron statistics from cold source. It is implicitely assumed that supermirror allows each beamline to choose the desired fraction of cold and thermal neutrons (i.e. extreme idealization). | 1.0 | |
| dist | m | Distance from source to focusing rectangle; at (0,0,dist) | 0 | |
| focus_xw | m | Width of focusing rectangle | ||
| focus_yh | m | Height of focusing rectangle | ||
| target_index | 1 | relative index of component to focus at, e.g. next is +1 this is used to compute 'dist' automatically. | 0 | |
| tmax_multiplier | 1 | Defined maximum emission time at moderator, tmax= tmax_multiplier * ESS_PULSE_DURATION. Only in combination with sourcedef="2013", "2014" or "2015" | 3 | |
| yheight_c | m | Height of the cold source | 0.12 | |
| yheight_t | m | Height of the thermal source | 0.12 | |
| n_pulses | 1 | Number of pulses simulated. 0 and 1 creates one pulse. The integrated intensity is constant | 1 | |
| acc_power | MW | Accelerator power in MW | 5 | |
| beamport_angle | deg | Direction within the beamport sector (0 < angle < extraction_opening for 2014, -extraction_opening/2 < angle < extraction_opening/2 for 2015) to direct neutrons. For sourcedef="2015", the only allowed values are 5,15,...,55 degrees measured from the central point. | -1 | |
| sourcedef | string | ESS source "database", values: "TDR", "2001", "2013", "2014", "2015" | "2015" | |
| xwidth_c | m | Width / arc-length opening of the cold source. | 0.1 | |
| xwidth_t | m | Edge of thermal source | 0.18 | |
| extraction_opening | deg | Width of extraction-area in degrees (60 or 120 degrees). 120 deg only in combination with sourcedef="2014" and "2015". | 120 |
| AT ( | , | , | ) RELATIVE | |||
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| ROTATED ( | , | , | ) RELATIVE |
Links
- Source code for
ESS_moderator.comp.
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