Component Manual for the Xray-Tracing Package McXtrace, version 3.8.6

12.6  The Attenuating_mask McXtrace Component

Attenuating_mask

Identification

Description

This component models a mask of energy dependent attenuation. This consists of a rectangular grid of size ”xwidth*yheight”, composed of multiple disks of finite thickness ”zdepth” of an attenuating material ”att_file”, width ”blocks_width” and period ”blocks_dist”(i.e. distance between the center of each disk). If holed_mask mode is turned the model of the component is the opposite, i.e. the mask is composed of an attenuating slab of finite thickness and of size ”xwidth*yheight”, with apertures of desired width and period.

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

att_file

”.txt”

File that contains the object information. (Default: ”W.txt”)

”W.txt”

xwidth

m

Horizontal width of the mask. (Default: 1e-1)

1e-1

yheight

m

Vertical height of the mask. (Default: 1e-1)

1e-1

zdepth

m

Thickness of the absorbing mask. (Default: 3e-3)

10e-6

blocks_xwidth

m

Width of the absorbing blocks in the x-direction. (Default: 3e-3)

1e-3

blocks_xdist

m

Distance between absorbing blocks in the x-direction. (Default: 10e-3)

2.5e-3

blocks_yheight

m

Height of the absorbing blocks in the y-direction. (Default: 3e-3)

1e-3

blocks_ydist

m

Distance between absorbing blocks in the y-direction. (Default: 10e-3)

2.5e-2

holed_mask

1

Set to 1 if the mask is a holed grid. (Default: 0)

0

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