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

7.2  The Saxs_spheres McXtrace Component

Release: McXtrace 1.1

Sample for Small Angle X-ray Scattering - hard spheres in thin solution, mono disperse.

Identification

Description

Sample for use in a SAXS instrument, models hard, monodisperse spheres in thin solution. The shape of the sample may be a filled box with dimensions xwidth, yheight, zdepth, a cylinder with dimensions radius and yheight, a filled sphere with radius R.

Example: Saxs_spheres(R = 20, Phi = 1e-3, Delta_rho = 0.6, sigma_abs = 50, xwidth=0.01, yheight=0.01, zdepth=0.005)

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.

Name

Unit

Description

Default

sphere_mtrl

str

Material datafile from which to find absorption. If none is given absorption is neglected.

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R

Å

Radius of scattering hard spheres

100

Phi

1

Particle volume fraction

1e-3

Delta_rho

fm/Å\(^{3}\)

Excess scattering length density

0.6

xwidth

m

Horiz. dimension of sample, as a width

0

yheight

m

Vert . dimension of sample, as a height for cylinder/box

0

zdepth

m

Depth of sample

0

radius

m

Outer radius of sample in (x,z) plane for cylinder/sphere

0

target_x

m

Position of target to focus at, along X

0

target_y

m

Position of target to focus at, along Y

0

target_z

m

Position of target to focus at, along Z

6

target_index

1

Relative index of component to focus at, e.g. next is +1

0

focus_xw

m

Horiz. dimension of a rectangular area

0

focus_yh

m

Vert. dimension of a rectangular area

0

focus_aw

deg

Horiz. angular dimension of a rectangular area

0

focus_ah

deg

Vert. angular dimension of a rectangular area

0

focus_r

m

Detector (disk-shaped) radius

0

mu_c

5

Column of the datafile which contains absorption coefficients.

0

Links

A model of dilute hard spheres in solution for SAXS-use