A complete series expansion of Ruby's solid-angle formula

✍ Scribed by S. Pommé

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 201 KB
• Volume: 531
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2004.05.088

✦ Synopsis

A full series expansion is presented of Ruby's formula (Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 58 (1968) 345; Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 337 (1994)) for the solid angle subtended by a disk-shaped detector for a coaxial, homogeneous, disk-shaped source. Its performance is compared with the fourth order expansion published by Tsoulfanidis (