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Generic Gaseous RICH
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A generic gas RICH detector for hadron PID in the forward dectection is shown in the figure below.
The simple design uses a plane mirror to reflect cherenkov photons (green) onto an array of MCP-PMT detectors (blue).
The optical properties of the mirror are defined in a properites block as `shown here <https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/NPDet/-/blob/master/src/GenericDetectors/pid/compact/GenericRICH_example.xml#L23>`_.
.. image:: images/topside_rich.png
:width: 600
.. code-block:: xml
<detector id="1" name="ForwardRICH" type="GenericRICH"
readout="ForwardRICHHits" vis="RedVis" material="N2cherenkov">
<dimensions rmin1="30*cm" rmin2="30*cm" rmax1="80*cm" rmax2="80*cm" zmin="20*cm" zmax="120*cm"/>
</detector>
Optical surfaces are `defined in the detector
construction. <https://eicweb.phy.anl.gov/EIC/NPDet/-/blob/master/src/GenericDetectors/pid/src/GenericRICH_geo.cpp#L129>`_
Their optical properites of surfaces are defined in the detector description:
.. code-block:: xml
<surfaces>
<opticalsurface finish="polished" model="glisur" name="MirrorOpticalSurface" type="dielectric_metal" value="0">
<property name="REFLECTIVITY" ref="REFLECTIVITY_mirror"/>
<property name="RINDEX" coldim="2" values="1.034*eV 1.5 4.136*eV 1.5"/>
</opticalsurface>
</surfaces>
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