energy_pair#

optika.sensors.energy_pair(wavelength, temperature=<Quantity 300. K>)[source]#

Calculate the average pair-production energy in silicon given by Ramanathan and Kurinsky [2020].

Parameters:

wavelength (Quantity | ScalarArray) – The vacuum wavelength of the incident photons.
temperature (Quantity | ScalarArray)

Return type:

ScalarArray

temperature: The temperature of the silicon.

Examples

Compute the pair-production energy as a function of incident photon energy.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import astropy.units as u
import astropy.visualization
import named_arrays as na
import optika

energy = na.geomspace(1, 100, axis="energy", num=1001) * u.eV
energy_pair = optika.sensors.energy_pair(energy)

with astropy.visualization.quantity_support():
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    na.plt.plot(
        energy,
        energy_pair,
    )
    ax.set_xscale("log")
    ax.set_xlabel(f"incident photon energy ({ax.get_xlabel()})")
    ax.set_ylabel(f"pair-production energy ({ax.get_ylabel()})")

../_images/optika.sensors.energy_pair_0_1.png

References to `optika.sensors.energy_pair`
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