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The FlatEllipse_finite_mirror Component

Date: 2022-2023 NMO (nested mirror optic) modules

Identification

• Site:
• Author: Christoph Herb, TUM
• Origin: TUM
• Date: 2022-2023

Description

Simulates NMO (nested mirror optic) modules as concevied by Böni et al., see
Christoph Herb et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1040, 1671564 (1-18) 2022.

The component relies on an updated version of conic.h from MIT.

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name	Unit	Description	Default
sourceDist	m	Distance used for calculating the spacing of the mirrors	0
LStart	m	Left focal point	0.6
LEnd	m	Right focal point	0.6
lStart	m	z-Value of the mirror start	0.
lEnd	m	z-Value of the mirror end	0.
r_0	m	distance to the mirror at lStart	0.02076
nummirror	1	number of mirrors	9
mf		mvalue of the inner side of the coating, m>10 results in perfect reflections	4
mb		mvalue of the outer side of the coating, m>10 results in perfect reflections	0
R0	1	Low-angle reflectivity	0.99
Qc	AA-1	critical scattering vector	0.021
W	AA-1	width of supermirror cutoff	0.003
alpha	AA	Slope of reflectivity	6.07
mirror_width	m	width of the individual mirrors	0.003
mirror_sidelength	m	side length of the individual mirrors	1
doubleReflections	1	binary value determining whether the mirror backside is reflective	0
rfront_inner_file	str	file of distances to the optical axis of the individual mirrors	"NULL"

AT (	,	,		) RELATIVE		Generate to clipboard
ROTATED (	,	,		) RELATIVE

Links

• Source code for FlatEllipse_finite_mirror.comp.
• Christoph Herb et al., Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A 1040, 1671564 (1-18) 2022.

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