arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~
arXiv 0812.0347nucl-ex
收藏

电子在磁场中的点扩散函数和自由中子的衰变

The point spread function of electrons in a magnetic field, and the decay of the free neutron

D. Dubbers, L. Raffelt, B. Maerkisch, F. Friedl, H. Abele

摘要:

核物理和粒子物理实验经常使用磁场来引导带电的反应产物到达探测器。由于它们在引导场中的旋转,颗粒在可以显著大于产生颗粒的源的直径的区域内撞击检测器。粒子源在探测器表面上的图像的这种模糊由合适的点扩散函数(PSF)描述,其被定义为点源的图像。我们推导出简单的解析表达式,这样的磁PSF,有效的任何角分布的发射粒子,可以开发勒让德多项式。我们在中子β衰变谱仪的背景下研究这个相当普遍的问题,并研究有限的探测器尺寸对测量的中子衰变相关参数的影响。令我们惊讶的是,探测器尺寸的不足并不会对这种测量的准确性产生太大影响,即使是对于相当大的回转半径。这一发现可以大大简化各个光谱仪的布局。

英文摘要:

Experiments in nuclear and particle physics often use magnetic fields to guide charged reaction products to a detector. Due to their gyration in the guide field, the particles hit the detector within an area that can be considerably larger than the diameter of the source where the particles are produced. This blurring of the image of the particle source on the detector surface is described by a suitable point spread function (PSF), which is defined as the image of a point source. We derive simple analytical expressions for such magnetic PSFs, valid for any angular distribution of the emitted particles that can be developed in Legendre polynomials. We investigate this rather general problem in the context of neutron beta decay spectrometers and study the effect of limited detector size on measured neutron decay correlation parameters. To our surprise, insufficient detector size does not affect much the accuracy of such measurements, even for rather large radii of gyration. This finding can considerably simplify the layout of the respective spectrometers.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑