GEANT Simulation for MAGNEX

This documentation is partly based on:

MAGNEX: a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer for EXCYT

GEANT Simulation

Addendum to MAGNEX report of December 30, 1997

Original document: June 30, 1998

A. Cunsolo^a,b, M. Aliotta^a,b, A. Bonaccorso^c, F. Cappuzzello^a,b, E. Costanzo^a,d,
A. Elanique^b, D. Ficarra^e, A. Foti^a,d, M. Lattuada^a,b, A. Lazzaro^a,b, S. Romano^b,
V. Shchepunov^b,f,C. Spitaleri^b, A. Tumino^a,b, D. Vinciguerra^a,b, J.S. Winfield^b.

a-Dipartimento di Fisica e Astromonia, Università di Catania, Catania, Italy b-INFN, LNS, Catania, Italy c-INFN, Sez. Pisa, Pisa, Italy d-INFN, Sez. Catania, Catania, Italy e-CSFNSM, Catania, Italy f-Flerov Laboratory of JINR, Dubna, Russia

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 1.1 MAGNEX spectrometer overview
2. GEAMAG - GEANT for MAGNEX 2.1 GEANT overview 2.2 Geometry 2.3 Magnetic field 2.4 Detector intrinsic resolutions 2.5 Spreading from vertical drift of electrons
3. Routines and Files, Compilation, Execution 3.1 Linux or Unix? 3.2 UGEOM 3.3 GUKINE 3.4 Ntuples 3.5 Compilation 3.6 Execution
4. Results, known limitations & bugs

4.1 Comparison of Optics against ZGOUBI
4.2 Ionic charge state problem
4.3 Tracking in thin volumes

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MAGNEX: a large acceptance magnetic spectrometer for EXCYT

GEANT Simulation

Addendum to MAGNEX report of December 30, 1997

1. Introduction

2. GEAMAG - GEANT for MAGNEX

3. Routines and Files, Compilation, Execution

4. Results, known limitations & bugs