DocumentCode
2624002
Title
Simulation of the focusing DIRC optics with Mathematica
Author
Va´Vra, J.
Author_Institution
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CA, USA
fYear
2008
fDate
19-25 Oct. 2008
Firstpage
2408
Lastpage
2412
Abstract
The Focusing DIRC is considered for the Barrel PID at a possible Super-B factory. To reduce sensitivity to background, it would be desirable to reduce a size of the present BaBar photon detector. One way to do it is to replace it with a focusing optics and use smaller photon detector pixels. We have simulated the focusing optics with simulation software based on a 3D calculation performed with the Mathematica program. The software does not use Optica package, instead, it uses its own 3D algorithm. The advantage of the presented method is that it is transparent, fast and that it uses a full backing of the Mathematica graphics, and it does not require expertise to run Geat4 MC software.
Keywords
Coordinate measuring machines; Detectors; Error correction; Optical sensors; Packaging; Prototypes; Silicon compounds; Testing; Timing; Virtual prototyping;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
Conference_Location
Dresden, Germany
ISSN
1095-7863
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-2714-7
Electronic_ISBN
1095-7863
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774841
Filename
4774841
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