On Friday 01 June 2007, I.Reitz wrote:
then use the tool "Ion Chamber" put in Kr (only one gas), 10cm pathlength, 760 Torr, 30000 eV
Hi Irmi, In addition to everything that Matt said, there is another important issue that you need to consider if you are looking at the interaction of high energy photons with gases -- the mass energy-absorption coefficients, which takes into account the energy deposition in the gas to Compton recoil electons. I think this is the proper reference: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/XrayMassCoef/cover.html Hephaestus makes a lousy attempt to approximate this effect that is better than doing nothing, but is certainly not correct. Doing a proper job of accounting for this effect is more of a computational challange than seems necessary for a quick-n-dirty beamline tool like Hephaestus. Sarvjit Shastri and Jonathon Lang here at the APS have, as I understand, looked at this carefully in order to characterize the high energy behavior of APS undulators. B -- Bruce Ravel ---------------------------------------------- bravel@anl.gov Molecular Environmental Science Group, Building 203, Room E-165 MRCAT, Sector 10, Advanced Photon Source, Building 433, Room B007 Argonne National Laboratory phone and voice mail: (1) 630 252 5033 Argonne IL 60439, USA fax: (1) 630 252 9793 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/