Estimates of the neutron fluence for the SDC detector

The high energy and high luminosity of SSC cause radiation problems to detectors. Almost all the radiation in the SDC detector comes from the 20 TeV on 20 Tev pp collisions. The design luminosity corresponds to 10[sup 8] collisions per second. This luminosity is maintained for 10[sup 7] seconds (one SSC year). It is important to know the radiation fields experienced by the tracking volume, calorimeter, electronics and the phototubes. The loss of light due to the radiation damage to the scintillators can adversely affect the physics performance of the calorimeter. Studies have been carried out earlier to estimate the radiation dose in the SDC detector. In this note we use ISAJET in combination with CALOR89 to make an accurate prediction of neutron fluence at the various locations of the SDC detector. The low energy neutron fluence is important because of their large activation cross sections. In CALOR89 the low energy neutron fluence is accurately estimated by MORSE code

Design considerations for a scintillating plate calorimeter for SDC

As scintillating plate calorimetry is a viable option for the SDC detector, it is imperative that the phase space of passive and active materials be explored in a systematic fashion. To this end, we have examined several different configurations of passive and active materials as a function of incident energy, to see what the resolution and e/h characteristics are of each of these configurations. These studies have been carried out using the CALOR89 Monte Carlo simulation package. 3 figs., 5 tabs

Simulation of hanging file experiments with CALOR89

This note presents the comparison of CALOR89 simulation with the hanging file'' test measurements conducted at Fermilab during the period of Sep 91--Jan 92. The purpose of this study is to benchmark CALOR89 code against the experimental data to enhance its reliability and predictive power. Seven hanging file configurations were simulated. The measured values of e/{pi} ratio (the ratio of electron to pion signal at the same energy), hadronic and electromagnetic resolutions were compared with the simulations. The depth profiles of the hadronic and electromagnetic showers are also compared

Unix version of CALOR89 for calorimeter applications

CALOR89 is a system of coupled Monte Carlo particle transport computer codes which has been successfully employed for the estimation of calorimeter parameters in High Energy Physics. In the past CALOR89 has been running on various IBM machines and on CRAY X-MP at Lawrence Livermore Lab. These machines had non-unix operating systems. In this report we present a UNIX version of CALOR89, which is especially suited for the UNIX work stations. Moreover CALOR89 is also been supplemented with two new program packages which makes it more user friendly. CALPREP is a program for the preparation of the input files for CALOR89 in general geometry and ANALYZ is an analysis package to extract the final results from CALOR89 relevant to calorimeters. This report also provides two script files LCALOR and PCALOR. LCALOR runs CALOR89 sequences of programs and EGS4 for a given configuration sequentially on a single processor and PCALOR concurrently on a multiprocessor unix workstation

Simulation of a presampler response with CALOR - a comparison with experimental data

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Incident energy dependence of hadronic activity

Two features of high-energy hadronic cascades have been long known to shielding specialists: (a) in a high-energy hadronic cascade in a given material (incident E [approx equal] 10 GeV), the relative abundance and spectrum of each hadronic species responsible for most of the energy deposition is independent of the energy or species of the incident hadron, and (b) because [pi][sup 0] production bleeds off more and more energy into the electromagnetic sector as the energy of the incident hadron increases, the level of this low-energy activity rises less rapidly than the incident energy, and in fact rises very nearly as a power of the incident energy. Both features are of great importance in hadron calorimetry, where it is the universal spectrum'' which makes possible the definition of an intrinsic e/h, and the increasing fraction of the energy going into [pi][sup 0]'s which leads to the energy dependence of e/[pi]. We present evidence for the universal spectrum,'' and use an induction argument and simulation results to demonstrate that the low-energy activity scales as E[sup m], with 0.80 [le] m [le] 0.85