Total and Partial Fragmentation Cross-Section of 500 MeV/nucleon Carbon Ions on Different Target Materials

Author

Alpat, Behcet ; Pilicer, Ercan ; Blasko, Sandor ; Caraffini, Diego ; Di Capua, Francesco ; Postolache, Vasile ; Saltanocchi, Giorgio ; Menichelli, M. ; Desorgher, Laurent ; Durante, M. ; Pleskac, R. ; La Tessa, C.

Author_Institution

Sezione di Perugia, Ist. Naz. di Fis. Nucleare, Perugia, Italy

Volume

60

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Dec. 2013

Firstpage

4673

Lastpage

4682

Abstract

By using an experimental setup based on thin and thick double-sided microstrip silicon detectors, it has been possible to identify the fragmentation products due to the interaction of very high energy primary ions on different targets. Here we report total and partial cross-sections measured at GSI (Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung), Darmstadt, for 500 MeV/n energy ¹²C beam incident on water (in flasks), polyethylene, lucite, silicon carbide, graphite, aluminium, copper, iron, tin, tantalum and lead targets. The results are compared to the predictions of GEANT4 (v4.9.4) and FLUKA (v11.2) Monte Carlo simulation programs.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; nuclear fragmentation; nuclei with mass number 150 to 189; nuclei with mass number 190 to 219; nuclei with mass number 20 to 38; nuclei with mass number 39 to 58; nuclei with mass number 59 to 89; nuclei with mass number 6 to 19; nuclei with mass number 90 to 149; ¹²C beam; Al(¹²C,X); C(¹²C,X); Cu(¹²C,X); Darmstadt; FLUKA v11.2 Monte Carlo simulation program; Fe(¹²C,X); GEANT v4.9.4 Monte Carlo simulation program; GSI; Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung; Pb(¹²C,X); Sn(¹²C,X); Ta(¹²C,X); aluminium target; carbon ions; copper target; fragmentation products; graphite target; high energy primary ions; iron target; lead target; lucite target; partial fragmentation cross-section; polyethylene target; silicon carbide target; tantalum target; thick double-sided microstrip silicon detectors; thin double-sided microstrip silicon detectors; tin target; Detectors; Ionization; Ions; Monte Carlo methods; Silicon; Simulation; Charge-changing; FLUKA; GEANT4; heavy ions; nuclear fragmentation cross-section; shielding materials;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2013.2284855

Filename

6670106