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

14.27  The FermiChopper_ILL McStas Component

Fermi Chopper with rotating frame.

Identification

Description

Models a Fermi chopper with optional supermirror coated blades supermirror facilities may be disabled by setting m = 0, R0=0 Slit packages are straight. Chopper slits are separated by an infinitely thin absorbing material. The effective transmission (resulting from fraction of the transparent material and its transmission) may be specified. The chopper slit package width may be specified through the total width ’xwidth’ of the full package or the width ’w’ of each single slit. The other parameter is calculated by: xwidth = nslit*w.

Example: FermiChopper_ILL(phase=-50.0, radius=0.04, nu=100,

yheight=0.08, w=0.00022475, nslit=200.0, R0=0.0,
Qc=0.02176, alpha=2.33, m=0.0, length=0.012, eff=0.95,

zero_time=0)

Markus Poehlmann     <Markus.Poehlmann@ph.tum.de>
Christian Carbogno   <carbogno@ph.tum.de>
and Helmut Schober   <schober@ill.fr>

%VALIDATION Apr 2005: extensive external test, most problems solved (cf. ’Bugs’) Validated by: K. Lieutenant

limitations: no blade width used

%BUGS - overestimates peak width for long wavelengths - does not give the right pulse position, shape and width for slit widths below 0.1 mm - fails sometimes when using MPI

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

phase

deg

chopper phase at t=0

0

radius

m

chopper cylinder radius

0.04

nu

Hz

chopper frequency

100

yheight

m

Height of chopper

0.08

w

m

width of one chopper slit

0.00022475

nslit

1

number of chopper slits

200.0

R0

1

low-angle reflectivity

0.0

Qc

Å\(^{-1}\)

critical scattering vector

0.02176

alpha

Å

slope of reflectivity

2.33

m

1

m-value of material. Zero means completely absorbing.

0.0

W

Å\(^{-1}\)

width of supermirror cut-off

2e-3

length

m

channel length of the Fermi chopper

0.012

eff

1

efficiency = transmission x fraction of transparent material

0.95

zero_time

1

set time to zero: 0: no 1: once per half cycle

0

xwidth

m

optional total width of slit package

0

verbose

1

optional flag to display component statistics, use 1 or 3 (debuging)

0

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