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

14.86  The SANS_AnySamp McStas Component

Sample for Small Angle Neutron Scattering. To be customized.

Identification

Description

Sample for Small Angle Neutron Scattering. May be customized for Any Sample model. Copy this component and modify it to your needs. Just give shape of scattering function. Normalization of scattering will be done in INITIALIZE.

Some remarks: Scattering function should be a defined the same way in INITIALIZE and TRACE sections There exist maybe better library functions for the integral.

Here for comparison: Guinier. Transmitted paths set to 3% of all paths. In this simulation method paths are well distributed among transmission and scattering (equally in Q-space).

Sample components leave the units of flux for the probability of the individual paths. That is more consitent than the Sans_spheres routine. Furthermore one can simulate the transmitted beam. This allows to determine the needed size of the beam stop. Only absorption has not been included yet to these sample-components. But thats really nothing.

Example: SANS_AnySamp(transm=0.5, Rg=100, qmax=0.03, xwidth=0.01, yheight=0.01, zdepth=0.001)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

transm

1

coherent transmission of sample for the optical path "zdepth"

0.5

Rg

Å

Radius of Gyration

100

qmax

Å\(^{-1}\)

Maximum scattering vector

0.03

xwidth

m

horizontal dimension of sample, as a width

0.01

yheight

m

vertical dimension of sample, as a height

0.01

zdepth

m

thickness of sample

0.001

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