Component Manual for the Neutron Ray-Tracing Package McStas, version 3.8.6

12.15  The Non_process McStas Component

This process dos nothing and is used for testing

Identification

Description

This process dos nothing and is used for testing

Part of the Union components, a set of components that work together and thus sperates geometry and physics within McStas. The use of this component requires other components to be used.

1) One specifies a number of processes using process components like this one 2) These are gathered into material definitions using Union_make_material 3) Geometries are placed using Union_box / Union_cylinder, assigned a material 4) A Union_master component placed after all of the above

Only in step 4 will any simulation happen, and per default all geometries defined before the master, but after the previous will be simulated here.

There is a dedicated manual available for the Union_components

Algorithm: Described elsewhere

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

sigma

barns

Scattering cross section

5.08

packing_factor

1

How dense is the material compared to optimal 0-1

1

unit_cell_volume

Å\(^{3}\)

Unit cell volume

13.8

interact_fraction

1

How large a part of the scattering events should use this process 0-1 (sum of all processes in material = 1)

-1

init

string

name of Union_init component (typically "init", default)

"init"

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