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search_scienceshot — Search ScienceShot's science reference pages and articles on radiation and particle physics, photonics, electronics and quantum physics. Retphoton_energy — Convert vacuum wavelength, frequency, spectroscopic wavenumber and photon energy with CODATA 2018 constants. Returns photon rate for opticalblackbody_spectrum — Calculate both Wien peaks, Planck peak spectral radiances and Stefan-Boltzmann radiant exitance for an ideal blackbody from 1 K to 100000 K.semiconductor_carriers — Calculate Varshni bandgap, intrinsic and doped equilibrium carriers, Fermi level above the valence edge and conductivity for Si, Ge or GaAs.noise_calculator — Calculate Johnson-Nyquist thermal noise voltage, current and available power kTB, Schottky shot noise, noise figure and noise temperature (2radioactive_decay — Calculate parent and daughter activities using NuDat 3 half-lives and branching. Supply an isotope ID, initial activity and elapsed time witxray_spectrum — Calculate a tungsten tube spectrum, mean energy (fluence-weighted), aluminium and copper half-value layers, air kerma and the fraction of kecosmic_dose — Calculate the cosmic-ray ambient dose equivalent rate H*(10) and effective dose rate E (ICRP 116), in uSv/h, inside an aircraft cabin (0-20 gamma_dose_rate — Compute a point-source air-kerma rate constant from listed NNDC photon lines and NIST air energy-absorption coefficients, with resolved LNHBsynchrotron_loss — Calculate dipole synchrotron energy loss per turn, radiated power per beam and critical photon energy in an isomagnetic ring. Give total beabragg_peak — Calculate proton CSDA range, stopping power, Bragg peak, distal R80 and relative dose per fluence in water or ICRU soft tissue. Uses Bethe rdiffraction_grating — Solves the signed reflection grating equation and ideal Rayleigh resolution from Hecht, Optics, 5th edition and the MKS Newport handbook. Reimage_sensor_snr — Compare electron-domain CCD, CMOS and EMCCD signal-to-noise with binning, stacking, PRNU and saturation.photodiode_responsivity — Converts external quantum efficiency and responsivity using CODATA 2018 h, c and e, and computes photocurrent and unity-gain shot noise follgaussian_beam — Gaussian propagation and thin-lens focusing from Siegman, Lasers (1986), with ISO 11146 beam propagation ratio. Returns Rayleigh range, radifibre_link_budget — Power margin and fixed-component power reach from ITU-T G.652.D cable attenuation maxima. Returns chromatic broadening and a dispersion-limimicrostrip_impedance — Calculate microstrip impedance and effective permittivity with Hammerstad-Jensen (1980) thickness correction. Returns Wheeler (1977) zero-thqubit_coherence — Calculate single-qubit average fidelity under Markovian amplitude/phase damping using Nielsen (2002). Accept T1, T2 or Tphi and gate time; chydrogen_spectrum — Calculate reduced-mass Rydberg vacuum and standard-air wavelengths, level energies and ionization energies for H, D or a one-electron ion. Squantum_tunnelling — Calculate the exact transmission coefficient of a one-dimensional rectangular potential barrier for an electron, proton or alpha particle, bconvert_radiation_units — Convert a radiation value between units of the same quantity. Gy and Sv are never converted into each other: that needs a radiation weightinphoton_attenuation — Narrow-beam photon attenuation from NIST XCOM. Give thickness in mm and energy in keV.energy_loss — Bethe and Landau thin-absorber estimates and a CSDA range for a heavy charged particle. The range is truncated at beta*gamma 0.05; give momematerial_properties — Density, Z/A, mean excitation energy, radiation length, nuclear interaction and collision lengths, electron critical energy, Moliere radius detector_signal — Most probable and mean electron-hole pairs, collected charge, energy deposit and Landau FWHM. Assumes full collection without gain; Si at 30landau_distribution — Heavy-particle energy-loss distribution with MPV, Landau FWHM, finite-transfer Bethe mean, xi, kappa, regime, peak constants and 161 Landau device_ledger_query — Query the ScienceShot QEP device ledger: published measurements of qubit coherence (T1, T2), single- and two-qubit gate fidelity, readout fiNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.