Decay Chamber
Decay Chambers are where unstable particles decay into other particles.
Decay Chambers are constructed exactly the same as Target Chambers.
Empty Decay chamber with 3 outputs shown:
Like Target Chambers, detectors can be place in Decay Chambers to increase the chambers efficiency. For them to work they need to be place within a certain distance from the Particle Chamber Block shown on their tool tip. Detectors add to the power usage of the decay chamber. Note: power is used only when the chamber is running.
Like Target Chambers, the sides the particles come out is dependant on the relative position to the input beam. See Target Chambers for more detail.
Particle beams are feed into the Decay chamber to work. Here is an example:
A 200 pu/t 30.099 MeV beam of neutrons decays into abeam of protons, electron antineutrinos and electrons each with at 200 pu/t and 10.529 MeV.
To calculate the energy and pu/t of the output beams we use the same process as in the Target chamber. First we look at the JEI recipe:
We see 1 pu of protons, electron antineutrinos and electrons are released son=3 and the energy released is 1.488 MeV so Q=1.488 MeV. So the output energy is E=(E0+Q)/n=(30.099 MeV + 1.488 MeV)/3=10.529 MeV which is what we get. For the amount of particles outputted we have aout=ainaΣ where Σ=min(ση,1). We are supply 200 pu of neutrons in so ain=200, the recipe has a cross section σ of 100% and the chamber has an efficiency η of 100%. So for the proton beam a=1 thus 200*1*(1.00*1.00)=200 which is what we see.