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The Pol_triafield McStas Component

14.59  The Pol_triafield McStas Component

Constant magnetic field in a isosceles triangular coil

Identification

  • Author: Morten Sales, based on Pol_constBfield by Peter Christiansen

  • Origin: Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

  • Date: 2013

Description

Rectangular box with constant B field along y-axis (up) in a isosceles triangle. There is a guide (or precession) field as well. It is along y in the entire rectangular box. A neutron hitting outside the box opening or the box sides is absorbed.

__________________
|        /\        |
| Bguide/  \Bguide |      x
|      /    \      |      ^
|     /      \     |      |
|    /   B    \    |      |-----> z
|   /   and    \   |
|  /   Bguide   \  |
| /              \ |
|/________________\|

The angle of the inclination of the triangular field boundary is given by the arctangent to xwidth/(0.5*zdepth)

This component does NOT take gravity into account.

Example: Pol_triafield(xwidth=0.1, yheight=0.1, zdepth=0.2, B=1e-3, Bguide=0.0)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

xwidth

m

Width of opening

yheight

m

Height of opening

zdepth

m

zdepth of field

B

T

Magnetic field along y-direction inside triangle

0

Bguide

T

Magnetic field along y-direction inside entire box

0

Links

  • Component source code found in file Pol_triafield.comp.


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