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Geant4 simulation framework of the NEXT Collaboration
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Add Polished Aluminium material #195

Closed mariandbt closed 1 year ago

mariandbt commented 1 year ago

This PR adds Polished Aluminum material to Optical Material Properties because, by placing an Aluminum disk at one end of the fibers, the number of photons collected by the sensor at the other end is higher. This way there's no need to work with 2 photosensors, one at each end of the fibers.

The values for the reflectance are taken from: Polished Aluminum Reflectance vs Wavelength plot DOI:10.4236/ampc.2015.511046

The values for the refractive index are taken from: Polished Aluminum Refractive Index vs Energy plot

paolafer commented 1 year ago

I suggest that you write the references directly in the code, as done with other materials. This way, it is easier to retrieve them, when needed. Nevermind, I found it :-).