Applications of the LAHET simulation code to relativistic heavy ion detectors

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5897949

Waters, L S; Gavron, A

The Los Alamos High Energy Transport (LAHET) simulation code has been applied to test beam data from the lead/scintillator Participant Calorimeter of BNL AGS experiment E814. The LAHET code treats hadronic interactions with the LANL version of the Oak Ridge code HETC. LAHET has now been expanded to handle hadrons with kinetic energies greater than 5 GeV with the FLUKA code, while HETC is used exclusively below 2.0 GeV. FLUKA is phased in linearly between 2.0 and 5.0 GeV. Transport of electrons and photons is done with EGS4, and an interface to the Los Alamos HMCNP3B library based code is provided to analyze neutrons with kinetic energies less than 20 MeV. Excellent agreement is found between the test data and simulation, and results for 2.46 GeV/c protons and pions are illustrated in this article.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 5897949
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-91-3871; CONF-9110232-3; ON: DE92005016
• Resource Relation: Conference: Symposium on Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) detector R D, Upton, NY (United States), 10-11 Oct 1991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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