Federico Carminati wrote:
> Right,
> what happens is fundamentally NOTHING, in the sense that GEANT3 does not
> model hadronic interactions of ions *at all*. I am surprised you see any
> hadronic interaction for everything with A>1.
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Maybe I misinterpreted the output of my simulation but
you may find he verbose output of two different events my program
produced at the following address
http://www.pi.infn.it/~maestro/vmc
In both the cases , a He4 nuclei is generated above the carbon pre-shower target.
In event1.txt the He4 undergoes a hadronic inelastic process in the target and
then pions , kaons neutron, protons, deuterons are produced.
In event2.txt the primary nucleon passes through the detector without
hadronic inelastic interactions.
Which is your explanation?
>
> The latest version of FLUKA
> handles ion interactions, but this is not yet completely interafaced with
> the VMC. Fed
When do you think a first public release of the fluka-VMC interface will be ready
and available ?
Is there some "beta" version one can already use ?
Many thanks.
Best regards
Paolo
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> > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Ivana Hrivnacova wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Paolo,
> > > >
> > > > I will only explain what does Geant3 VMC
> > > > when you call gMC->DefineIon(..) in your
> > > > VMC application class:
> > > >
> > > > gMC->DefineIon(...) adds a geant3 particle via
> > > > Gstpart(...) function with setting the ITRTYP code
> > > > (type of tracking routine) to ITRTYP=8.
> > > > Then this particle definition is also added to TDatabasePDG
> > > > (if it does not yet exist here) and mapped to the geant3
> > > > particle id.
> > > >
> > > > What happens next is a question for Geant3 experts.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Ivana
> > > >
> > > > ==============================================================
> > > > e-mail: Ivana.Hrivnacova@cern.ch
> > > > address: Institut Physique Nucleaire, 91406 Orsay, France
> > > > phone: (33) 01 69 15 65 94
> > > > ==============================================================
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, paolo maestro wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > I defined in the method AddParticles of my class
> > > > > inheriting from TVirtualMCApplication some ions through:
> > > > >
> > > > > gMC->DefineIons("He4",2, 4, 2, 0, 3.75309);
> > > > > gMC->DefineIons("Li6",3, 6, 3,0 , 5.62963);
> > > > > gMC->DefineIons("B10",5, 10, 5,0 , 9.38272);
> > > > > and so on.
> > > > > Then I switched off the hadrons interaction in geant3
> > > > > by selecting the FLUKA generator.
> > > > > In my application I have a calorimeter
> > > > > preceeded by a carbon target acting as a pre-shower .
> > > > > I noticed that when I run with protons or nuclei as D, He up to Li6
> > > > > the hadronic cascades occur with a rate according to the total number of
> > > > > interaction
> > > > > lengths of my detector.
> > > > > But with heavier nuclei (starting from B10) the hadronic interactions
> > > > > seem to be switched off
> > > > > and nuclei pass through the calorimeter as minimum ionizing particles.
> > > > > The situation is even worse by using the geisha generator. Infact in
> > > > > this case all the nuclei behave as mips.
> > > > > Which is the reason of these behaviours ?
> > > > > Is it due to some limitation of the fluka/geisha generator inside
> > > > > geant3?
> > > > > Or do I have to do something else to run properly with ions?
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > Best regards
> > > > > Paolo
> > > > >
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