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ID: past-exam-of-the-short-options-paper-shared-by-prelims-and-parts-a-and-b-of-the-physics-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/s19/2/c/solution
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Past exam of the short options paper shared by Prelims and Parts A and B of the physics course of the University of Oxford
/
2015
/
S19
/
2
/
c
/
Solution
by
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2026-10-25
Near the critical
photon energy
, the characteristic vertical
divergence
of
synchrotron radiation
is
σ
θ
≃
1/
γ
=
1.70
×
1
0
−
4
rad
in the
approximation
requested. Ignoring
electron
source
size
and
divergence
, the rms vertical width
10
m
downstream is
σ
y
≃
L
σ
θ
=
1.70
mm
.
(1)
The full
aperture
width is
10
mm
, so its half-width is
5
mm
=
2.94
σ
y
. It therefore passes
almost all
the central
8
keV
photon
beam.
A
Gaussian angular
approximation
would give
T
≃
erf
(
2
σ
y
5
mm
)
≃
0.9967.
(2)
The exact
synchrotron
angular distribution
is not Gaussian, so this
number
is an illustrative containment estimate, not an exact
throughput
calculation
.
A
finite
aperture
cannot transmit every
photon
in
a
distribution with tails. The assumed infinite horizontal
aperture
removes horizontal fan clipping.
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