Scintillator pathlength/ bounces
Below are plots showing the path-length of photons in the scintillator and the number of bounces, for both simulated MINOS and OPERA strips. The blue curves show the distributions for photons that survive to the fibre, while the black curves are photons that miss the fibre.
The bottom line is:
Photons tend to travel further in MINOS strips, which isn't too surprising.
Photons tend to bounce more often in the MINOS strips, which again isn't too surprising.
Update: Rebuilt to get pathlength right.
Pathlength:
OPERA:

MINOS:

Bounces:
OPERA:

MINOS:

Comments
Note the path lenghts are in meters!
Posted by: Nathaniel | July 11, 2006 11:15 AM