• 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