AbstractWe have performed a detailed Monte-Carlo (MC) simulation for the Advanced Thin Ionization Calorimeter (ATIC) detector using the MC code FLUKA-2005 which is capable of simulating particles up to 10PeV. The ATIC detector has completed two successful balloon flights from McMurdo, Antarctica lasting a total of more than 35 days. ATIC is designed as a multiple, long duration balloon flight, investigation of the cosmic ray spectra from below 50GeV to near 100TeV total energy; using a fully active Bismuth Germanate (BGO) calorimeter. It is equipped with a large mosaic of silicon detector pixels capable of charge identification, and, for particle tracking, three projective layers of x–y scintillator hodoscopes, located above, in the middle and below a 0.75 nuclear interaction length graphite target. Our simulations are part of an analysis package of both nuclear (A) and energy dependences for different nuclei interacting in the ATIC detector. The MC simulates the response of different components of the detector such as the Si-matrix, the scintillator hodoscopes and the BGO calorimeter to various nuclei. We present comparisons of the FLUKA-2005 MC calculations with GEANT calculations and with the ATIC CERN data.


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    Title :

    A detailed FLUKA-2005 Monte-Carlo simulation for the ATIC detector


    Contributors:
    Gunasingha, R.M. (author) / Fazely, A.R. (author) / Adams, J.H. Jr. (author) / Ahn, H.S. (author) / Bashindzhagyan, G.L. (author) / Batkov, K.E. (author) / Chang, J. (author) / Christl, M. (author) / Ganel, O. (author) / Guzik, T.G. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 42 , 3 ; 417-423


    Publication date :

    2007-03-26


    Size :

    7 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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