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The ESS_butterfly Component

ESS butterfly moderator, 2016 revision

Identification

Description

ESS butterfly moderator with automatic choice of coordinate system, with origin
placed at relevant "Moderator Focus Coordinate System" depending on sector location.

To select beamport N 5 simply use

COMPONENT Source = ESS_butterfly(sector="N",beamline=5,Lmin=0.1,Lmax=20,dist=2,
cold_frac=0.5, yheight=0.03,focus_xw=0.1, focus_yh=0.1)

Geometry
The geometry corresponds correctly to the latest release of the butterfly moderator,
including changes warranted by the ESS CCB in July 2016, the so called BF1 type moderator.
A set of official release documents are available with this component, see the benchmarking
website mentioned below.

Brilliances, geometry adapted from earlier BF2 design
The geometry and brightness data implemented in the McStas ESS source component ESS_butterfly.comp,
are released as an updated component library for McStas 2.3, as well as a stand alone archive for
use with earlier versions of McStas.

The following features are worth highlighting:

As before, the beamports all originate at the focal point of the sector. The beamline will in almost all cases be
horizontally tilted in order to view the cold or thermal moderator, which should be done using an Arm component.

We expect to release an MCNP-event-based source model later in 2016, and possibly also new set of brilliance functions for ESS_butterfly.comp. These are expected to include more realistic brilliances in terms of variation across sectors and potentially also performance losses due to engineering reality. Engineering reality An ad-hoc method for future implementation of "engineering reality" is included, use the "c_performance/t_performance" parameters to down-scale performance uniformly across all wavelengths. References:

  1. Release document "Update to ESS Moderators, latest version"
  2. Release document "Description and performance of the new baseline ESS moderators, latest version"
  3. http://essbutterfly.mcstas.org/ benchmarking website with comparative McStas-MCNP figures
  4. html-based, interactive 3D model of moderators and monolith, as seen from beamline N4.
  5. Source code for ESS_butterfly.comp at GitHub.

Input parameters

Parameters in boldface are required; the others are optional.
NameUnitDescriptionDefault
sectorstrDefines the 'sector' of your instrument position. Valid values are "N","S","E" and "W""N"
beamline1Defines the 'beamline number' of your instrument position. Valid values are 1..10 or 1..11 depending on sector1
yheightmDefines the moderator height. Valid values are 0.03 m and 0.06 m0.03
cold_frac1Defines the statistical fraction of events emitted from the cold part of the moderator0.5
target_index1Relative index of component to focus at, e.g. next is +1 this is used to compute 'dist' automatically.0
distmDistance from origin to focusing rectangle; at (0,0,dist) - alternatively use target_index0
focus_xwmWidth of focusing rectangle0
focus_yhmHeight of focusing rectangle0
c_performance1Cold brilliance scalar performance multiplicator c_performance > 01
t_performance1Thermal brilliance scalar performance multiplicator t_performance > 01
LminAAMinimum wavelength simulated
LmaxAAMaximum wavelength simulated
tmax_multiplier1Defined maximum emission time at moderator, tmax= tmax_multiplier * ESS_PULSE_DURATION.3
n_pulses1Number of pulses simulated. 0 and 1 creates one pulse.1
acc_powerMWAccelerator power in MW5
tfocus_distmPosition of time focusing window along z axis0
tfocus_timesTime position of time focusing window0
tfocus_widthsTime width of time focusing window0
AT ( , , ) RELATIVE
ROTATED ( , , ) RELATIVE

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