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

7.14  The Pol_constBfield McStas Component

Constant magnetic field.

Identification

Description

Rectangular box with constant B field along y-axis (up). The component can be rotated to make either a guide field or a spin flipper. A neutron hitting outside the box opening or the box sides is absorbed.

Example: Pol_constBfield(xwidth=0.1, yheight=0.1, zdepth=0.2, fliplambda=5.0)

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

Length of field

B

Gauss

Magnetic field along y-direction

0

fliplambda

Å

lambda for calculating B field

0

flipangle

deg

Angle flipped for lambda = fliplambda fliplambda and flipangle overrides B so a neutron with s= (1, 0, 0) and v = (0, 0, v(fliplambda)) will have s =(cos(flipangle), sin(flipangle), 0) after the section.

180

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