Determination of the Spectrometer Acceptance for Forward Production of Hadrons and Nuclear Fragments in Nucleus−Nucleus Collisions at the U-70 Accelerator Complex (Monte Carlo Simulation)

Abstract

The results of the simulation of the spectrometer acceptance for forward production of hadrons and nuclear fragments in nucleus−nucleus collisions at the U-70 accelerator complex are presented. The spectrometer is composed of beamline 22 of the U-70 accelerator and the detectors of the upgraded FODS facility with location of nuclear targets at the beamline head. The calculations have been performed in the virtual Monte Carlo environment of the ROOT package from the GEANT4 toolkit (version 4.10.02.p02). The passage of secondary hadrons (charged π and K mesons, protons, and antiprotons), secondary light nuclei (D, T), and heavier isotopes (He, Li, Be, B, and C) have been studied. In addition to the acceptance for each type of particles and nuclei, the coefficients of their escape from an ensemble due to decays and interactions during their passage through the spectrometer have been calculated.