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

14.87  The SANS_DebyeS McStas Component

Sample for Small Angle Neutron Scattering, Debye-Scherrer Ring

Identification

Description

Debye-Scherrer Ring: Model for highly ordered diblock copolymer. This example is highly simple. Multiple scattering neglected, but could be incorporated. Sample that only produces a DebyeSherrer ring. Advantages: Transmitted beam is simulated. Intensities still in flux units. Minor point: Absolute scattering probability given by transmission.

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_DebyeS(transm=0.5, qDS=0.008, 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

qDS

Å\(^{-1}\)

Scattering vector of Debye-Sherrer ring

0.008

xwidth

m

horiz. dimension of sample, as a width (m)

0.01

yheight

m

vert.. dimension of sample, as a height (m)

0.01

zdepth

m

thickness of sample (m)

0.001

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