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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Orsay: detector configurations AGAIN

I finally got wise and did the high-school geometry necessary to describe the positions of the edges of detectors. Here's what the Deep Space 9 ordinary positions look like...

ds9

...and here's my current favourite configuration, affectionately known as "configuration 5"...

config 5

For both of these, the legend gives the relevant position information: r, theta and phi values for the centre of each detector.

Here's the hit patterns for elastic scattering (using a Rutherford-esque cross section)...

config5 elastic hit pattern

ds9 elastic hit pattern

...and the hit patterns for the reaction...

ds9 hit patterns

config5 hit patterns

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